The comings and goings of the vagus and the need to know your neural fulcrum

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
² Division of Pulmonology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.

Comment

Yee-Hsee Hsieh et al. J Physiol. 2017.

. 2017 Nov 15;595(22):6809-6810.

doi: 10.1113/JP275204. Epub 2017 Oct 19.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
² Division of Pulmonology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.

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Keywords: endocytosis; muscarinic receptor; potassium channel.

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Defining the neural fulcrum for chronic vagus nerve stimulation: implications for integrated cardiac control.
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