Your workmanship is marvelous...
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"A new research study shows the existence of a connection between atherosclerotic plaques and the central nervous system.
---This previously unknown “circuit” involves three systemically acting tissues,
*the immune system,
*the nervous system,
*and the cardiovascular system.
This crosstalk is functional as interference into the nervous system affects atherosclerosis progression as demonstrated in experimental models.
Importantly, the connective tissue surrounding arteries is rich in nerve fibers that establish a direct connection between the plaque and the brain. In fact, this adventitia tissue is used by the nervous system as main conduit to reach all organs throughout the body.
Then researchers reconstructed the entire path of nerve fibers, up to the central nervous system. “At this point — continues Carnevale — we were able to see that signals coming from the plaque, once they reach the brain, influence the autonomic nervous system through the vagus nerve (the one portion of the nervous system controlling most of our organs and visceral functions, ed) down to the spleen. Here, specific immune cells are activated and enter the blood circulation, leading to the progression of the plaques themselves.”
"A new research study shows the existence of a connection between atherosclerotic plaques and the central nervous system.
---This previously unknown “circuit” involves three systemically acting tissues,
*the immune system,
*the nervous system,
*and the cardiovascular system.
This crosstalk is functional as interference into the nervous system affects atherosclerosis progression as demonstrated in experimental models.
Importantly, the connective tissue surrounding arteries is rich in nerve fibers that establish a direct connection between the plaque and the brain. In fact, this adventitia tissue is used by the nervous system as main conduit to reach all organs throughout the body.
Then researchers reconstructed the entire path of nerve fibers, up to the central nervous system. “At this point — continues Carnevale — we were able to see that signals coming from the plaque, once they reach the brain, influence the autonomic nervous system through the vagus nerve (the one portion of the nervous system controlling most of our organs and visceral functions, ed) down to the spleen. Here, specific immune cells are activated and enter the blood circulation, leading to the progression of the plaques themselves.”
It is a real circuit, defined by the authors as “ABC” or “artery-brain circuit.”
--Like all circuits, it can be disconnected or modulated.
“We performed further experiments — adds the professor — by interrupting nerve connections towards the spleen. In this way, impulses on the immune cells present in this organ are interrupted. The result of this therapeutic interruption is that plaques in the arteries not only slowed their growth, but stabilized making the disease less severe.”
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