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Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2023 Vagus nerve stimulation is a neuromodulatory treatment option for individuals with drug resistant epilepsy who are not resective surgical candidates.
Hannah E. Snyder +7 more
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Seizures
Archives of Medical Research, 2000 It is agreed that 1% of the general population is afflicted with epilepsy and close to 30% of epilepsy patients are intractable to medications. In spite of a recent increase in the number of new medications that are available on the market, many patients continue to have seizures or their seizures are controlled at the expense of intolerable side ...
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Florida, and College of Medicine and Malcolm Randall Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC), Gainesville, FL, USA ( host institution ) +1 more
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Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy
Rinsho Shinkeigaku, 2011 Vagus nerve stimulation is the first electrical stimulation therapy for epilepsy. While its clinical use was approved by the European Union in 1994 and by the United States in 1997, it was approved last year and coverage by public insurance started last July in Japan.
Kawai, Kensuke +2 more
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Advances in the Application of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Inflammation and Apoptosis Mechanism of Chronic Heart Failure [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixueAs a crucial component of the cardiac autonomic nervous system, the cardiac vagus nerve plays a significant role in the management of chronic heart failure.
HU Yuchi, DAI Songyuan, ZHAO Ling, ZHAO Lulu
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Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation [PDF]
European Neurological Review, 2011 Invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an approved treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy. Besides its recognised clinical efficacy, there are major drawbacks, such as invasiveness and a great many side effects. Therefore there is a medical demand for transcutaneous VNS (t-VNS®), which combines selective, non-invasive access to vagus nerve afferents ...
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Neural Regeneration Research, 2018 Orexins, produced in the lateral hypothalamus, are important neuropeptides that participate in the sleep/wake cycle, and their expression coincides with the projection area of the vagus nerve in the brain.
Xiao-yang Dong, Zhen Feng
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Vagus nerve stimulation primes platelets and reduces bleeding in hemophilia A male mice
Nature Communications, 2023 Deficiency of coagulation factor VIII in hemophilia A disrupts clotting and prolongs bleeding. While the current mainstay of therapy is infusion of factor VIII concentrates, inhibitor antibodies often render these ineffective.
Carlos E. Bravo-Iñiguez +17 more
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation in the Treatment of Dravet Syndrome
罕见病研究, 2022 Dravet syndrome is a epileptic syndrome characterized by drug-resistant epilepsy occuring at childhood. It is often accompanied by status epilepticus and cognitive and language impairment appearing gradually as the disease progresses.
LIU Tinghong +4 more
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Selective stimulation of the ferret abdominal vagus nerve with multi-contact nerve cuff electrodes
Scientific Reports, 2021 Dysfunction and diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are a major driver of medical care. The vagus nerve innervates and controls multiple organs of the GI tract and vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) could provide a means for affecting GI function and ...
Jonathan A. Shulgach +11 more
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Organotopic organization of the porcine mid-cervical vagus nerve
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionDespite detailed characterization of fascicular organization of somatic nerves, the functional anatomy of fascicles evident in human and large mammal cervical vagus nerve is unknown.
Nicole Thompson +8 more
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