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Type Words
Synonyms pneumogastric
Derivation vagus

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Vagal pathways include neurons originating in paired nodose and jugular ganglia.
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Morphologically, several types of vagal mucosal endings have been distinguished.
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Vagal activation by sham feeding improves gastric motility in functional dyspepsia.
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This is thought to be caused by changes in the vagal tone during respiration.
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Low vagal tone and antral dysmotility in patients with functional dyspepsia.
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The role of the vagal nerve in peripheral PYY3-36-induced feeding reduction in rats.
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Metabotropic glutamate receptors inhibit mechanosensitivity in vagal sensory neurons.
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In each experiment, higher self-esteem correlated with higher vagal tone.
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Then the brain uses the vagal pathway to feed back instructions to the liver and kidneys.
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More examples
  • Of or relating to the vagus nerve
  • (vagus) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera
  • The vagus nerve , also called pneumogastric nerve, cranial nerve X, the Wanderer or sometimes the Rambler, is the tenth of twelve (excluding CN0) paired cranial nerves. ...
  • (vagus) Latin = wandering; hence, cranial nerve X, which leaves the head and neck to traverse the thorax and upper part of the abdomen.
  • (Vagus) The canonical term referring to one who has no fixed abode.
  • (Vagus) nerve stimulation therapy using a pacemaker-like device implanted in the chest is a treatment used since 1997 to control seizures in epilepsy patients and has recently been approved for treating drug-resistant cases of clinical depression.