Vagus nerve
A patient-level meta-analysis of studies evaluating vagus nerve stimulation therapy for treatment-resistant depression
... Objective: To compare response and remission rates in depressed patients with chronic treatment‑resistant depression (TRD) treated with vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) Therapy [r] ...
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Is-there a place for vagus nerve stimulation in inflammatory bowel diseases?
... The vagus nerve (VN), the longest nerve of the organism that innervates the gastrointestinal tract, is a mixed nerve composed of 80% of afferent and 20% of efferent ...
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Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) enhances divergent thinking
... Given the causal nature of the stimulation technique used in the current study, our fi ndings provide a fi rst direct demonstration for a causal link between the vagus nerve and creativity. We used a between- ...
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Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation in healthy humans reduces sympathetic nerve activity.
... the vagus nerve in conditions such as lung cancer (45- 47), gastroeosophageal reflux (48) and myocardial infarction (49, ...cervical vagus nerve stimulation has also been reported to cause ear ...
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Immunomodulatory Effects of Vagus Nerve and Acetylcholine in Gastroduodenal Area
... of vagus nerve and ACh in the modulation of the immune response? Vagus nerve (VN) has been put forward in the regulation of the "inflammatory reflex", a prototypical reflex circuit ...
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Morphological and neurochemical analysis of sensory afferents of the vagus nerve
... Since the development of techniques utilising sensitive neuronal tracers there has been a multitude of studies that have ascertained the heterogeneous distribution of vagal sensory afferent terminations of the whole ...
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Role of Cholinergic Receptors in Colorectal Cancer: Potential Therapeutic Implications of Vagus Nerve Stimulation?
... Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients, such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis suffer from chronic and re- lapsing intestinal inflammation that favours the development of colitis associated cancer (CAC). This ...
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Collateral benefits of studying the vagus nerve in bioelectronic medicine
... the vagus nerve in preclinical scenarios of cancer, including breast, gastric and pancreatic cancer (Chavan et ...the vagus nerve and cholinergic signaling in pan- creatic exocrine ...
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Continuous Vagus Nerve Monitoring during Carotid Endarterectomy
... the vagus nerve or one of its branches during carotid endarterectomy can result in vocal fold paralysis but the exact mechanism of injury responsible for vocal fold paralysis after carotid endarterectomy is ...
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Standardization of methods to record Vagus nerve activity in mice
... the vagus nerve also senses and trans- mits information about the inflammatory phenotype of the host to the central nervous ...the vagus nerve in response to different chal- lenges suggests ...
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Vagus nerve stimulation for treatment resistant mood disorders: a long term naturalistic study
... The device component consists of a pulse generator with a lithium battery and a lead wire with two helical elec- trodes and a tethering anchor. Under operating micro- scope the helical electrodes and the anchor tether ...
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Electric stimulation of the vagus nerve reduced mouse neuroinflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide
... cervical vagus nerve trunk and connected to a stimulation module (designed by the Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico, CCADET, UNAM, ...
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Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and extinction of prepared fear: A conceptual nonreplication
... In summary, in this study we found no indications that tVNS accelerated the extinction of conditioned fear. However, participants who received tVNS displayed lower US expectancy ratings to the CS− trials at the start of ...
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Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Sleep related Breathing in Epilepsy Patients
... and vagus nerve stimulation ...vagal nerve signal; NPR, nasal pressure; oral-nasal, oral– nasal thermistor; thor, thoracic effort; abd , abdominal effort; PES, esophageal pressure ...
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Can vagus nerve stimulation halt or ameliorate rheumatoid arthritis and lupus?
... principal vagus neurotransmitter, inhibits inflammation by suppressing the production of pro- inflammatory cytokines through a mechanism dependent on the a7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit (alpha7nAChR) ...
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The Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Output of the NuCalm Device of Solace Lifesciences Is Found to Be a Multifractal and Therefore It Is Indicated in the Treatment of Heart Rate Variability in the Dysfunction of Autonomic Nervous System in Anxiety, Depression and Stress
... the vagus nerve by a signal that is intrinsically multifractal induces a strong heart related neuro-modulation that enables the subject to recover ANS dysfunction related to his/her psychological ...
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Heart rate regulation in diving sea lions: the vagus nerve rules
... sympathetic nerve fibers and elevation of blood catecholamines, both of which typically increase heart rate, a bradycardia occurs during the dive ...the vagus nerve rules over that of the cardiac ...
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Long-term treatment with vagus nerve stimulation in patients with refractory epilepsy
... with vagus nerve stimulation in patients with refractory epilepsy” (Neurology 1999;53;1731– 1735) by Morris et ...the Vagus Nerve Stimulator Study Group ...
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Cytokine-specific Neurograms in the Sensory Vagus Nerve
... Intracellular Calcium Measurements Nodose ganglia were washed with Hank’s buffered salt solution and loaded with the calcium-sensitive Fluo-4 NW with pluronic acid F-127 (Molecular Probes) for 60 min, then mounted on the ...
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Role of Vagus Nerve in Gastroduodenal Adaptation and Cytoprotection
... the vagus nerve stimulation, the level of several gastric hormones was significantly ...afferent nerve fibers, and how does local protective system responses against the effects of aggressive ...
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