Inflammatory Changes Involving Brain, Artery (IMAGE)

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Inflammatory Changes Involving Brain, Artery

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This image shows how sleep fragmentation can decrease the brain's production of the hormone hypocretin, causing a cascade of inflammatory changes in the bone marrow that over time can damage the blood vessels and lead to the development of atherosclerosis.

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Filip Swirski, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School.

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