Noninvasive Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Decreases Whole Blood Culture-Derived Cytokines and Chemokines: A Randomized, Blinded, Healthy Control Pilot Trial
Lerman I, Hauger R, Sorkin L, Proudfoot J, Davis B, Huang A, Lam K, Simon B, Baker DG
Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface · 2016
Key finding
In healthy volunteers, a single noninvasive cervical VNS session significantly reduced whole-blood culture-derived pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines versus sham.
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- Condition
- Inflammation
- Stimulation
- tcVNS
- Evidence tier
- Controlled Clinical Trial
- Participants
- 20
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Lerman, I., Hauger, R., Sorkin, L., Proudfoot, J., Davis, B., Huang, A., Lam, K., Simon, B., & Baker, D. G. (2016). Noninvasive Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Decreases Whole Blood Culture-Derived Cytokines and Chemokines: A Randomized, Blinded, Healthy Control Pilot Trial. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 19(3), 283-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/ner.12398
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