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Electrical ‘switch’ in brain’s capillary network monitors activity and controls blood flow

March 25, 2017 by

New research has uncovered that capillaries have the capacity to both sense brain activity and generate an electrical vasodilatory signal to evoke blood flow and direct nutrients to neurons.

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