Szu-Han Wang

1. Introduction The nucleus reuniens of the thalamus (RE) is ideally situated to mediate information exchange between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC) and participate in a variety of higher cognitive functions (reviews: Dolleman-van der Weel et al., 2019; Mathiasen et al., 2020; Ferraris et al., 2021). One of the most interesting lines of research suggests that RE is critical for long-term memory consolidation (Ferraris et al., 2021).

2. Arterial Ulcers and Diabetic Foot Ulcers 2.1. Overview Arterial ulcers are mainly caused by reduced arterial blood supply, of which the most common etiology is peripheral artery disease (PAD, also called peripheral artery occlusive disease or PAOD) [4]. Peripheral artery obstruction is related to atherosclerotic disease. The symptoms of PAD can be silent or symptomatic and present in various ways.

Research Paper Volume 15, Issue 13 pp 5990—6010 1 Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor’s Building, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204808 How to Cite This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.