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Fingolimod therapy can cause persistent heart rate slowing in patients with preexisting parasympathetic predominance due to autonomic dysfunction. A study of 34 RRMS patients found prolonged ...

A new study has found that during exercise, the vagus nerve, essential to the body’s ‘rest and digest’ response, has a more important role in heart function than we thought. The findings could be ...

A team of researchers has now determined in rodents how congestive heart failure triggers substantive changes to the nerves that control heart function. A team of researchers, led by Keiichi Fukuda, ...

In 1921, Otto Loewi (1873-1961) conducted experiments in frogs that used electrical stimulation to activate the vagus nerve. He discovered that stimulating the vagus nerve triggered the release of a ...

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