Vagal nerve stimulator: Evolving trends

Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-13

  Ogbonnaya, Sunny ^a   Kaliaperumal, Chandrasekaran ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Depression; neurogenesis; obesity; seizure; vagus nerve stimulator

Indexed keywords

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878882820     PISSN: 09769668     EISSN: 22297707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.107254     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Agur AM, Dalley AE. The cranial nerves: Grants Atlas of Anatomy. Philadelphia: Wilkins and Williams; 2009. p.415-6.
2. Ferris EB, Capps RB, Weiss S. Carotid sinus syncope and its bearing on the mechanism of unconscious state and convulsions. Medicine 1934;14:377-453.
3. Bailey P, Bremer FA. Sensory cortical representation of the Vagus nerve. J Neurophysiol 1938;1:405-122
4. Dell P, Olson R. Thalamic, cortical and cerebella projections of vagal visceral afferents. C R Seances Soc Biol Fil 1951;145:1084-8.
5. Zabara J. Peripheral control of hypersynchronous discharge in epilepsy. Electroencephalography 1985;61:S162.
6. Amar AP, DeGiorgio CM, Tarver WB, Apuzzo ML. Long term multicenter experience with Vagus nerve stimulation for intractable partial seizures. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1999;73:104-8.
7. Amar AP, Heck CN, Levy ML, Smith T, De Giorgio CM, Oviedo S, et al. An institutional experience with cervical Vagus nerve trunk stimulation for medically intractable epilepsy: Rationale, technique, and outcome. Neurosurgery 1998;43:1265-80.
8. Farooqui S, Boswell W, Hemphill JM, Pearlman E. Vagus nerve stimulation in pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy: Case series and operative technique. Am Surg 2001;67:119-21.
9. Rutecki P. Anatomical, physiological, and theoretical basis for the antiepileptic effect of Vagus nerve stimulation. Epilepsia 1990;31:S1-6.
10. Sackeim HA, Rush AJ, George MS, Marangell LB, Husain MM, Nahas Z, et al. Vagus Nerve Stimulation for treatment resistant depression: Efficacy, side effects, and predictors of outcome. Neuropsychopharmacology 2001;25:713-28.
11. Penry JK, Dean JC. Prevention of intractable partial seizures by intermittent vagal stimulation in humans: Preliminary results. Epilepsia 1990;31 Suppl 2:S40-3.
12. Ben-Menachem E, Manon-Espaillat R, Ristanovic R, Wilder BJ, Stefan H, Mirza W, et al. Vagus nerve stimulation for treatment of partial seizures: 1. A controlled study of effect on seizures. First International Vagus Nerve Stimulation Study Group. Epilepsia 1994;35:616-26.
13. Müller K, Fabó D, Entz L, Kelemen A, Halász P, Rásonyi G, et al. Outcome of Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy in Budapest. Epilepsia 2010;51 Suppl S3:98-101.
14. Englot DJ, Chang EF, Auguste KI. Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy: A meta-analysis of efficacy, and predictors of response. J Neurosurg 2011;115:1248-55.
15. Bao M, Zhou J, Luan GM. Treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy with Vagus nerve stimulation-review of 45 cases. Chin Med J 2011;124:4184-8.
16. Zabara J. Time course of seizure control to brief repetitive stimuli. Epilepsia 1985;26:518.
17. Krahl SE, Clark KB, Smith DC, Browning RA. Locus coeruleus lesions suppress the seizure-attenuating effects of Vagus nerve stimulation. Epilepsia 1998;39:709-14.
18. Ben-Menachem E, Hamberger A, Hedner T, Hammond EJ, Uthman BM, Slater J, et al. Effects of Vagus nerve stimulation on amino acids, and other metabolites in the CSF of patients with partial seizures. Epilepsy Res 1995;20:221-7.
19. Henry TR, Bakay RA, Votaw JR, Pennell PB, Epstein CM, Faber TL, et al. Brain blood flow alterations induced by therapeutic Vagus nerve stimulation in partial epilepsy. Epilepsia 1998;39:983-90.
20. Mathers CD, Loncar D. Projections of global mortality, and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030. PloS Med 2006;11:442.
21. Rush AJ, George MS, Sackeim HA, Marangell LB, Husain MM, Giller C, et al. Vagus Nerve stimulation for treatment resistant depressions: A multicenter study. Biol Psychiatry 2000;47:276-86.
22. Bajbouj M, Merkl A, Schlaepfer TE, Frick C, Zobel A, Maier W, et al. Two-year outcome of Vagus nerve stimulation in treatment-resistant depression. Clin Psychopharmacol 2010;30:273-81.
23. Ashton AK. Depressive Relapse after Vagus nerve stimulator Explantation. Am J Psychiatry.2010;167:719-20.
24. Sackeim HA, Decina P, Prohovnik I, Malitz S, Resor SR. Anticonvulsant, and antidepressant properties of electroconvulsive therapy: A proposed mechanism of action. Biol Psychiatry 1983;18:1301-10.
25. Conway CR, Sheline YI, Chibnall JT, George MS, Fletcher JW, Mintun MA. Cerebral blood flow changes during Vagus nerve stimulation for depression. Psychiatry Res 2006;146:179-84.
26. Schacther SC, Schmidt D. Vagus Nerve Stimulation. Martin Dunitz 2003;4:1755-84.
27. Manta S, Dong J, Debonnel G, Blier P. Enhancement of the function of rat serotonin, and norepinephrine neurons by sustained Vagus nerve stimulation. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2009;34:272-80.
28. Clark KB, Smith DC, Hassert DL, Browning RA, Naritoku DK, Jensen RA. Post-training electrical stimulation of vagal afferents with concomitant Vagal efferent inactivation enhances memory storage process in rat. Neurobiol Learn Mem 1998;70:364-73.
29. Clark KB, Naritoku DK, Smith DC, Browning RA, Jensen RA. Enhanced recognition memory following Vagus nerve stimulation in human subjects. Natural Neurosci 1999;2:94-8.
30. Ghacibeh GA, Shenker JI, Shenal B, Uthman BM, Heilman KM. The influence of Vagus nerve stimulation on Memory. Cogn Behav Neurol 2006;19:119-22.
31. Hallböök T, Lundgren J, Stjernqvist K, Blennow G, Strömblad LG, Rosén I. Vagus nerve stimulation in 15 children with therapy resistant epilepsy; its impact on cognition, quality of life, behavior and mood. Seizure 2005;14:504-13.
32. World Health Organization. Global Database on Body Mass Index.
33. Bodenlos JS, Kose S, Borckardt JJ, Nahas Z, Shaw D, O'Neil PM, et al. Vagus nerve stimulation acutely alters food craving in adults with depression. Appetite 2007;48:145-53.
34. Pardo JV, Sheikh SA, Kuskowski MA, Surerus-Johnson C, Hagen MC, Lee JT, et al. Weight loss during chronic, cervical Vagus nerve stimulation in depressed patients with obesity. Int J Obes 2007;31:1756-9.
35. Schacther SC, Schmidt D. Vagus Nerve Stimulation. Martin Dunitz 2003;6:2701-27.
36. Smith GP, Jerome C, Cushin BJ, Eterno R, Simansky KJ. Abdominal Vagotomy blocks the satiety effect of cholecystokinin in rats. Science 1981;213:1036-7.
37. Gonzalez MF, Deutsch JA. Vagotomy abolishes cues of satiety produced by gastric distension. Science 1981;212:1283-4.
38. Ritter RC, Ritter S, Ewart WR, Wingate DL. Capsaicin attenuates hindbrain neuron responses to circulating cholecystokinin. Am J Physiol 1989;257:1162-8.
39. Bray GA. Afferent signals regulating food intake. Proc Nutr Soc 2000;59:373-4.
40. Jacobs BL, Praag H, Gage FH. Adult brain neurogenesis and psychiatry: A novel theory of depression. Mol Psychiatry 2000;5:262-9.
41. Revesz D, Tjernstrom M, Ben-Menachem E, Thorlin T. Effect of Vagus nerve stimulation on rat hippocampal progenitor proliferation. Exp Neurol 2008;214:259-65.
42. Gebhardt N, Bär KJ, Boettger MK, Grecksch G, Keilhoff G, Reichart R, et al. Vagus nerve stimulation ameliorated deficits in one-way active avoidance learning, and stimulated hippocampal neurogenesis in bulbectomized rats. Brain Stimul 2012. In Press.
43. Biggio F, Gorini G, Utzeri C, Olla P, Marrosu F, Mocchetti I, et al. Chronic Vagus nerve stimulation induces neuronal plasticity in the rat hippocampus. Neuropsychopharmacology 2009;12:1209-21.
44. Kulkarni VA, Jha S, Vaidya VA. Depletion of norepinephrine decreases the proliferation, but does not influence the survival and differentiation of cell progenitors in adult rat hippocampus. Eur J Neurosci 2002;16:2008-12.
45. Malberg JE, Eisch AJ, Nestler EJ, Duman RS. Chronic antidepressant treatment increases neurogenesis in Adult rat Hippocampus. J Neurosci 2000;20:9104-10.
46. Sheline YI, Wang PW, Gado MH, Csernansky JG, Vannier MW. Hippocampal Atrophy in recurrent major depression. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1996;93:3908-133