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Pial arteries bend with every heartbeat
Mia Viuf Skøtt, Leif Østergaard, Dmitry D. Postnov
The paper shows that pial arteries in awake mice bend with each heartbeat, displacing walls more than three times the pulse-related dilatation, while veins show minimal movement.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.30.755720