The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health

Neurophysiologic effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) via electrical stimulation of the tragus: A concurrent taVNS/fMRI study and review

(2018) Bashar W. Badran et al.   Brain Stimulation

Hypoxia, oxidative stress and inflammation

(2018) Trudy McGarry et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Acetylcholine signaling system in progression of lung cancers

(2018) Jamie R. Friedman et al.   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Exposure to ambient air pollution and the incidence of dementia: A population-based cohort study

(2017) Hong Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Intravenous electrical vagal nerve stimulation prior to coronary reperfusion in a canine ischemia-reperfusion model markedly reduces infarct size and prevents subsequent heart failure

(2017) Takahiro Arimura et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies

(2017) et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

(2017) Mohsen Naghavi et al.   LANCET

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

(2017) Simon I Hay et al.   LANCET

Heart rate variability indices as bio-markers of top-down self-regulatory mechanisms: A meta-analytic review

(2017) Jacob B. Holzman et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The Association of Cigarette Smoking With High-Frequency Heart Rate Variability

(2017) Fernando Bodin et al.   PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE

Cholinergic Stimulation Improves Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Experimental Myocardial Infarction

(2017) Otávio C. Bezerra et al.   Scientific Reports

Colorectal cancer incidence in 5 Asian countries by subsite: An analysis of Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (1998–2007)

(2016) Hye-Min Park et al.   Cancer Epidemiology

Vagal nerve activity predicts overall survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer, mediated by inflammation

(2016) Marijke De Couck et al.   Cancer Epidemiology

Diabetes and Cancer: a Review of Current Knowledge

(2016) J. Wojciechowska et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES

Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation for theACuteTreatment of Cluster Headache: Findings From the Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled ACT1 Study

(2016) Stephen D. Silberstein et al.   HEADACHE

Short-term and long-term effects of GDP on traffic deaths in 18 OECD countries, 1960–2011

(2016) Iman Dadgar et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Higher Heart-Rate Variability Is Associated with Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activity and Increased Resistance to Temptation in Dietary Self-Control Challenges

(2016) Silvia U. Maier et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Heart rate variability in the prediction of survival in patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) Xin Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

(2016) Mohammad H Forouzanfar et al.   LANCET

Noninvasive Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Decreases Whole Blood Culture-Derived Cytokines and Chemokines: A Randomized, Blinded, Healthy Control Pilot Trial

(2016) Imanuel Lerman et al.   NEUROMODULATION

Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2016) Bin Su et al.   PLoS One

The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale

(2015) J. Lelieveld et al.   NATURE

Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Induces Tidal Melatonin Secretion and Has an Antidiabetic Effect in Zucker Fatty Rats

(2015) Shuxing Wang et al.   PLoS One

Global burden of COPD

(2015) José Luis López-Campos et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Heart rate turbulence in patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus type 2

(2015) Andrzej Bissinger et al.   Archives of Medical Science

The Global Burden of Ischemic Heart Disease in 1990 and 2010

(2014) Andrew E. Moran et al.   CIRCULATION

Plasma norepinephrine is an independent predictor of adverse cerebral and cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetic patients without structural heart disease

(2014) Kunio Yufu et al.   Journal of Cardiology

Semapimod Sensitizes Glioblastoma Tumors to Ionizing Radiation by Targeting Microglia

(2014) Ian S. Miller et al.   PLoS One

Vagal nerve activity as a moderator of brain–immune relationships

(2013) Hideki Ohira et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

Increased Sympathetic Nerve Activity in COPD is Associated with Morbidity and Mortality

(2013) Stefan Andreas et al.   LUNG

Associations of Job Stress Indicators with Oxidative Biomarkers in Japanese Men and Women

(2013) Jiro Takaki   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Behavioural modification of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory response to C-reactive protein in patients with hypertension

(2012) R. P. Nolan et al.   JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Auricular transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in depressed patients: a randomized controlled pilot study

(2012) Ernst Hein et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

Too toxic to ignore

(2012) Elizabeth H. Blackburn et al.   NATURE

You may need the vagus nerve to understand pathophysiology and to treat diseases

(2011) Marijke De Couck et al.   CLINICAL SCIENCE

The Effect of Globalization on Employee Psychological Health and Job Satisfaction in Malaysian Workplaces

(2011) Mohd Awang Idris et al.   JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Acetylcholine-Synthesizing T Cells Relay Neural Signals in a Vagus Nerve Circuit

(2011) M. Rosas-Ballina et al.   SCIENCE

Breast cancer incidence and time trend in France from 1990 to 2007: a population-based study from two French cancer registries

(2010) L. Daubisse-Marliac et al.   ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY

Low vagal tone is associated with impaired post stress recovery of cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune markers

(2010) Cora Stefanie Weber et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Increased Sympathetic and Decreased Parasympathetic Activity Rather Than Changes in Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity Is Associated with Metabolic Abnormalities

(2010) Carmilla M. M. Licht et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Fruit, vegetable, and fish consumption and heart rate variability: the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study

(2009) Sung Kyun Park et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Is acetylcholine an autocrine/paracrine growth factor via the nicotinic α7-receptor subtype in the human colon cancer cell line HT-29?

(2009) Ann Pettersson et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Reduced heart rate variability correlates with insulin resistance but not with measures of obesity in population undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

(2009) Richard A. Perugini et al.   Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Cancer-related inflammation

(2008) Alberto Mantovani et al.   NATURE