Bioelectronic Medicine, the Vagus, and the Inflammatory Reflex with Kevin Tracey
Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson
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Can the Vegas Nerve Control TNF Production in a Mouse Model of Arthritis?
There's two Vegas nerves right there's a right Vegas nerve and a left Vegas nerve. And each of them have about 80,000 fibers. Each of those fibers theoretically has a different job description to control different response so we can walk and chew and chew gum at the same time because our nervous system is uses individual nerve fibers to do individual jobs. So now you're not looking at sort of a nerve ending specific effect on all the T cells which you mentioned and the B cells which are in the spleen but you're looking on a more of a humeral neurotransmitter process.
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