Humberto Mestre Payne
Humberto worked on the project while he was a PhD candidate funded by the NSC Neuroscience Ph.D. Program. His main work focused on vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia. He is now studying medicine.
Key publications
Flow of cerebrospinal fluid is driven by arterial pulsations and is reduced in hypertension. Mestre H, Tithof J, Du T, Song W, Peng W, Sweeney AM, Olveda G, Thomas JH, Nedergaard M, Kelley DH.Nat Commun. 2018 Nov 19;9(1):4878. PMID: 30451853
Publucation link: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Flow+of+cerebrospinal+fluid+is+driven+by+arterial+pulsations+and+is+reduced+in+hypertension
Cerebrospinal fluid influx drives acute ischemic tissue swelling. Mestre H, Du T, Sweeney AM, Liu G, Samson AJ, Peng W, Mortensen KN, Stæger FF, Bork PAR, Bashford L, Toro ER, Tithof J, Kelley DH, Thomas JH, Hjorth PG, Martens EA, Mehta RI, Solis O, Blinder P, Kleinfeld D, Hirase H, Mori Y, Nedergaard M.Science. 2020 Mar 13;367(6483):eaax7171. Epub 2020 Jan 30.PMID: 32001524
Publication link: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Cerebrospinal+fluid+influx+drives+acute+ischemic+tissue+swelling