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Vagal nerve stimulation therapy: what is being stimulated? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Vagal nerve stimulation in cardiac therapy involves delivering electrical current to the vagal sympathetic complex in patients experiencing heart failure. The therapy has shown promise but the mechanisms by which any benefit accrues is not understood. In
Guy Kember, Jeffrey L Ardell, John A Armour, Mair Zamir   +3 more
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Closed-Loop Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation: Current Situation and Future Possibilities

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
Closed-loop (CL) transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation (taVNS) was officially proposed in 2020. This work firstly reviewed two existing CL-taVNS forms: motor-activated auricular vagus nerve stimulation (MAAVNS) and respiratory-gated auricular ...
Yutian Yu, Yutian Yu, Jing Ling, Lingling Yu, Pengfei Liu, Pengfei Liu, Min Jiang, Min Jiang   +7 more
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Continuous vagus nerve stimulation exerts beneficial effects on rats with experimentally induced Parkinson's disease: Evidence suggesting involvement of a vagal afferent pathway

Brain Stimulation, 2023
Background: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) exerts neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory effects in preclinical models of central nervous system disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD).
Kakeru Hosomoto, Tatsuya Sasaki, Takao Yasuhara, Masahiro Kameda, Susumu Sasada, Ittetsu Kin, Ken Kuwahara, Satoshi Kawauchi, Yosuke Okazaki, Satoru Yabuno, Chiaki Sugahara, Koji Kawai, Takayuki Nagase, Shun Tanimoto, Cesario V. Borlongan, Isao Date   +15 more
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Vagal Nerve Stimulation-Modulation of the Anti-Inflammatory Response and Clinical Outcome in Psoriatic Arthritis or Ankylosing Spondylitis

Mediators of Inflammation, 2021
Objectives. The vagal nerve exerts an essential pathway in controlling the cholinergic anti-inflammatory reflex. Thus, the study is aimed at investigating the acute effect of a noninvasive transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on clinical disease ...
C. Brock, S. E. Rasmussen, A. M. Drewes, H. J. Møller, B. Brock, B. Deleuran, A. D. Farmer, M. Pfeiffer-Jensen   +7 more
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Electric vagal nerve stimulation inhibits inflammation and improves early postoperation cognitive dysfunction in aged rats

BMC Anesthesiology, 2019
Background This study aimed to evaluate effects of electric vagal nerve stimulation on early postoperation cognitive dysfunction in aged rats. Methods A total of 33 male Sprague Dawley rats were selected and assigned randomly to three groups, control ...
Jun Xiong, Huijun Wang, Yin Bao, Yuliang Guo, Yongxing Sun   +4 more
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Vagal nerve stimulation for the management of long COVID symptoms [PDF]

Infectious Medicine
This review investigates the therapeutic potential of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) in managing long COVID, a condition marked by persistent symptoms following acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. Long COVID manifests as ongoing fatigue, cognitive impairment, and
Malik W.Z. Khan, Muhammad Ahmad, Salma Qudrat, Fatma Afridi, Najia Ali Khan, Zain Afridi, Fahad, Touba Azeem, Jibran Ikram   +8 more
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No significant modulation of pressure pain sensitivity and cardioception after transauricular vagal nerve stimulation [PDF]

PAIN Reports
. Introduction:. Transauricular vagal nerve stimulation (taVNS) is gaining interest as a chronic pain treatment due to its convergence with nociceptive pathways.
Laura Moniek Ronda De Herde, Ken Steffen Frahm, Claus Graff, Thomas dos Santos Nielsen, Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Hartwig Roman Siebner, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade   +6 more
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Influence of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on cardiac vagal activity: Not different from sham stimulation and no effect of stimulation intensity.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The present study investigated the effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on cardiac vagal activity, the activity of the vagus nerve regulating cardiac functioning.
Uirassu Borges, Sylvain Laborde, Markus Raab   +2 more
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The effects of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation on cortical GABAergic and cholinergic circuits: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

European Journal of Neuroscience, 2023
Neurophysiological evidence that transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation (taVNS) affects neuronal signalling at the cortical level is sparse.
Vesna M. Midden, J. Demšar, Z. Pirtošek, M. Kojović   +3 more
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Cervical transcutaneous vagal neuromodulation in chronic pancreatitis patients with chronic pain: A randomised sham controlled clinical trial.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Background & aimsChronic abdominal pain is the primary symptom of chronic pancreatitis, but unfortunately it is difficult to treat. Vagal nerve stimulation studies have provided evidence of anti-nociceptive effect in several chronic pain conditions.
Janusiya Anajan Muthulingam, Søren Schou Olesen, Tine Maria Hansen, Christina Brock, Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, Jens Brøndum Frøkjær   +5 more
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