The glymphatic system clears amyloid beta and tau from brain to plasma in humans

Sleep neuroscience · Nature Communications · 2026

First human evidence that the sleep-linked glymphatic system moves amyloid and tau out of the brain into blood.

Authors

Dagum, Elbert, Giovangrandi … Iliff

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First human evidence that the sleep-linked glymphatic system moves amyloid and tau out of the brain into blood.

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  • glymphatic
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