bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.13.947291; this version posted February 13, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Diffusion MRI reveals in vivo and non- 2 invasively changes in astrocyte function 3 induced by an aquaporin-4 inhibitor. 4 Clément S. Debaker1, Boucif Djemai1, Luisa Ciobanu1, Tomokazu Tsurugizawa1*, Denis Le Bihan1* 5 1 NeuroSpin, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 6 7 *Corresponding authors. 8 Denis Le Bihan 9 NeuroSpin, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives -Saclay Center, 10 Bât 145, Point Courrier 156, 11 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 12 phone: +33 1 69 08 81 97 13 e-mail:
[email protected]. 14 Tomokazu Tsurugizawa 15 NeuroSpin, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives -Saclay Center, 16 Bât 145, Point Courrier 156, 17 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 18 phone: +33 1 69 08 94 83 19 e-mail :
[email protected]. 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.13.947291; this version posted February 13, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 20 Abstract 21 The Glymphatic System (GS) has been proposed as a mechanism to clear brain tissue from waste.