Transvenous vagus nerve stimulation does not modulate the innate immune response during experimental human endotoxemia: A randomized controlled study

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kox, Matthijs ^a   van Eijk, Lucas T ^a   Verhaak, Tim ^a   Frenzel, Tim ^a   Kiers, Harmke D ^a   Gerretsen, Jelle ^a   van der Hoeven, Johannes G ^a   Kornet, Lilian ^b   Scheiner, Avram ^b   Pickkers, Peter ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXPERIMENTAL ENDOTOXEMIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ADULT; ENDOTOXEMIA; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTOXEMIA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933512859     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13075-015-0667-5     Document Type: Article

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