Vagal nerve activity as a moderator of brain-immune relationships

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 28-36

  Ohira, Hideki ^a   Matsunaga, Masahiro ^b   Osumi, Takahiro ^c   Fukuyama, Seisuke ^d,e   Shinoda, Jun ^d   Yamada, Jitsuhiro ^d   Gidron, Yori ^f  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Kizawa Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^e KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^f VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Natural killer cells; Neuroimmunomodulation; Positron emission tomography; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; NORADRENALIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PUNISHMENT; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84878630145     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: 18728421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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