NeuroscienceJournal of Neural EngineeringPeer-reviewed
Prevalence of sympathetic fibers within the rat cervical vagus, and functional consequence on physiological effects mediated by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS).
Ashlesha Deshmukh, Rex Chin-Hao Chen, Justin Chin…·Kip A. Ludwig
This study shows that sympathetic fibers are present in the rat cervical vagus nerve and that stimulating the vagus nerve can activate these fibers, leading to tachycardia rather than bradycardia.
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