Pericytes are crucial for maintaining blood-brain barrier integrity and their detachment or death contributes to leakage in disease.

“and so they will start shortening their processes also so I didn't mention it but very cites it's a there's a small cell body with a process like small processes like an octopus kind of thing sitting on top of a vessel and all these processes are here to to to push the blood through basically and maintain the integrity and these processes will shorten uh because of the inflammation and of course if the the parasites are shortening their processes the flow will reduce”

“one of them that is is to meet one of the most important one is called the pericite so they're wrapped around the blood vessels in the brain and those cells are very sensitive they detach the vessels and they they die very early in the disease and if they are not there to to maintain that the Integrity of the the barrier we know that there is these leakages”

“parasites are here to wrap around the vessels and make sure there's no like a straight barrier between the blood and the brain so nothing can cross easily except glucose and things that we need oxygen”