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Leif Østergaard

@stergaard-leif.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist interested in brain energy metabolism in brain health and disease. Professor and director, CFIN, Dept. Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University. Consultant and Head, Neuroradiology Research, Aarhus University Hospital. www.cfin.au.dk

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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Congratulations - amazing work🤩!
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nicolay Kutuzov is the final Hot Topic Poster presenter. He talks about super-localization two-photon microscopy for tracking blood vessel walls. Cool images🤩!
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Line Mathilde Brostrup Hansen talks about effects of age and sex on stroke outcomes in a mouse model (slight change from poster). After ischemia-reperfusion, older mice did worse - and sex needs to be taken into account. #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hot Topic Poster presentation by Jacqueline Condrau on endothelial injury: microglia enwrap the injured capillary but this is not necessary for capillary repair. Neither were pericytes and astrocytes🤯. Answer? Neighbouring endothelial cell extensions.
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Great talk by Yamei Tang on radiation-induced brain injury. Pericytes are extremely sensitive to radiation: Reduced pericyte coverage, signs of mural cell damage. Thalidomide treatment salvaged pericytes, capillaries, BBB integrity, neuronal function in mice🤩 Enormous translational potential!
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Eugenio Gutierrez-Jimenez presented a comprehensive study of carbonanhydrase inhibitor effects in the presymotomatic phase of Alzheimers Disease in a mouse model: reduces amyloid load, proteomic changes and hints of microvascular, oxygenation changes 🤩. #CTH2024. Out of battery😬) See
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Changing gears to look at human microvascular hemodynamics. Simon Fristed Eskildsen talks about microvascular flow disturbances in Alzheimers Disease and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Tour de force through methods, models and concepts for understanding the BOLD signal by Michele Desjardins - amazing, multimodal and multidisciplinary work from Desjardin lab🤩. #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Ravi Rungta presents cool studies of layer-specific flow responses in whisker barrel cortex 🤩. Why does vasodilation show little selectivity? Capillary dilation is tuned to downstream activity in layer 4.
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Mindblowing talk by Cristine Alberini: IGF-2 from pericytes is required for term memory formation. She points out that IGF-2 signaling is implicated in multiple brain disorders. Multiple opportunities for collaboration: neural plasticity - microvascular plasticity! #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Amazing talk by Mohamad Amiki - deep characterization of neutrophils after stroke at #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Krzysztof Kucharz (Lauritzen Lab) is the third #CTH2024 Hot Topic presenter - about microvascular changes in an animal model of Huntingtons Disease - a devastating neurodegenerative disorder
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Anna Devor conceived and champions the #BrainMicrocirculation workshop’s Hot Topic Poster presentation sessions - giving early career researchers an opportunity to present their work and discuss their finding
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Marine Tournissac (Charpak Lab) is the second Hot Topic Poster presenter. She investigated the difference between CO2- and brain activation- related hyperemia
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hot Topic Poster presentation #CTH2024 - Kevin Elk (Mishra lab) is the first of 6 posters selected for an oral presentation - at very short notice😬! Great talk on pericyte function!
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Mickael Tanter: Clinical application-impressive 🤩! Micro bubbles are 3 micrometers.
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Mickael Tanter presents amazing ultrasound images of the brain circulation - and brain activity 🤩
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Franca Schmid presents amazing model findings that increase our understanding of the importance of collaterals and of what happens after pericyte loss and capillary occlusions. Take home from modeling talks: we need more detailed images of microvascular trees - especially in deep cortex layers.
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Sylvie Lorthois gives impressive talk on modeling the microcirculation - long transit times and poor oxygenation/amyloid removal may be more common - and harder to measure - than we believe #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Timothy Secomb, a giant within our understanding of blood flow and oxygen transport in microvascular networks, kicks off the modeling session🤩 #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Vladimir Matchkov talks about capillary hemodynamics and neuro vascular coupling after ischemia-reperfusion.
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Anusha Mishra presents impressive work on neuro vascular coupling - and how it changes after stroke. Huge translational implications for vascular and Alzheimers dementia #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Anusha Mishra presents impressive work on neuro vascular coupling - and how it changes after stroke. Huge translational implications for vascular and Alzheimers dementia #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#BrainMicrocirculation session starting
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Poster session at the #BrainMicrocirculation workshop #CTH2024☕️
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fabrice Fabertrand presents the elegant capillary-parenchymal preparation and novel studies of the mechanisms underlying pericyte responses to intra-luminal pressure #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Tom Longden talks about plasticity in vascular signaling that accompanies brain plasticity. Cool pericyte activation method👌. Just out in PNAS - and #CTH2024🤩
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Felix Beinlich presenting at #CTH2024 🤩
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Sava Sakadzic, Pioneer in 2-photon microscopy based brain oxygenation measurement methods introduces Felix Beinlich, who presents a bioluminescent oxygen sensor based method recently published in Science by the Nedergaard group. #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Microvascular pulsatilty is BIG compared to activation-related changes! Dmitry Postnov #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Dmitry Postnov presents pulsatility measurements along the vasculature with cool optical techniques #CTH2025
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Jonghwan Lee - OCT tools to detect brain and retinal microvascular dysfunctions over the lifespan in animal models of Alzheimer’s Disease AD. Goal is to combine sensitive biomarkers and AI to find subjects at risk of neurodegenerative disorders early - and cost effectively. #CTH2024.
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Craig Brown: great talk on capillary stalls in aging and diabetes
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Shaeffer - Nishimura group: bad-ass VR goggles for mice 🐭👓 🤩. #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Shaeffer & Nishimura at #CTH2024: means of reducing capillary stalls in hypertension/APOE-e4 carriage: huge translational potential!
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Dream Team: Chris Shaeffer and Nozomi Nishimura, pioneers in capillary stalls #CTH2024🤩
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nils Korte: role of nimodipine in Alzheimers #CTH2024. Should be given early in the disease?
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nils Korte tells about pericyte-mediated reductions of blood flow and capillary stalling in Alzheimers disease at #CTH2024
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
At #CTH2024, pericyte superstar Turgay Dalkara just introduced pericyte superstar David Attwell, who talks about Danish Nobel laureate August Krogh 🤩 #BrainMicrocirculation
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Leif Østergaard @stergaard-leif.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Looking forward to 3 days of exciting talks, posters and discussions about #BrainMicrocirculation with researchers from across the world🤩! #CTH2024
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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🛰️Andreas Mogensen visited @aarhusuni.bsky.social last night to share stories about his ISS missions… and how he slept. He was the first volunteer for the Center for Ear EEG's project to monitor sleep in astronauts!😴👂He returned his EEG earpiece and even had a gift for center leader Preben Kidmose. 🚀
Andreas Mogensen returning his ear EEG device to Simon Kappel, Preben Kidmose, and Kaare Mikkelsen (Aarhus University)Andreas Mogensen gives Preben Kidmose a collage with a Huginn patch that was with him on the ISS
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