Modulatory effects of vagal stimulation on neurophysiological parameters and the cellular immune response in the rat brain during systemic inflammation

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Schweighöfer, Hanna ^a,b   Rummel, Christoph ^b   Roth, Joachim ^b   Rosengarten, Bernhard ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immune to brain signaling; Leptin; Neurovascular coupling; Nuclear factor interleukin 6; Nuclear factor kappa B; Prostaglandins; Sepsis; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN DELTA; CXCL1 CHEMOKINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOKINE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; ENDOTOXEMIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOKED FLOW VELOCITY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 85019982801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2197425X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40635-016-0091-4     Document Type: Article

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