Bioelectronic Medicine, the Vagus, and the Inflammatory Reflex with Kevin Tracey
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The Early Work on Vegas Nerve Reflexes
There were at least two peripheral organs that it was known that they can affect and I think maybe the pancreas but the no I think the list of a Vegas nerve reflexes even in the 1990s when we started with long. And these neurons express a cation channel called trip a one that's that sensitive to cold, reactive oxygen species and other chemical irritants,. including cinema all the hide and, and it turns out. Those signals are also necessary and sufficient to turn on the motor signals in the Vegas nerve which returned to the immune system to turn off cytokine storm. We have a paper that is soon to be impressed. Perhaps by the time this podcast is is how it'll
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