"Vagus Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The 10th cranial nerve. The vagus is a mixed nerve which contains somatic afferents (from skin in back of the ear and the external auditory meatus), visceral afferents (from the pharynx, larynx, thorax, and abdomen), parasympathetic efferents (to the thorax and abdomen), and efferents to striated muscle (of the larynx and pharynx).
| Descriptor ID |
D014630
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.800.050.050.925 A08.800.050.600.825 A08.800.800.060.920 A08.800.800.120.900
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| Concept/Terms |
Vagus Nerve- Vagus Nerve
- Nerve, Vagus
- Nerves, Vagus
- Vagus Nerves
- Tenth Cranial Nerve
- Cranial Nerve, Tenth
- Cranial Nerves, Tenth
- Nerve, Tenth Cranial
- Nerves, Tenth Cranial
- Tenth Cranial Nerves
- Nervus Vagus
- Vagus, Nervus
- Cranial Nerve X
- Nerve X, Cranial
- Nerve X
- Nerve Xs
- Pneumogastric Nerve
- Nerve, Pneumogastric
- Nerves, Pneumogastric
- Pneumogastric Nerves
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vagus Nerve" by people in Profiles.
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The current state of the evidence for bariatric surgery. JAMA. 2014 Sep 03; 312(9):898-9.
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A six-month randomized controlled trial of exercise and pyridostigmine in the treatment of fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Feb; 58(2):612-22.
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RR interval variability is inversely related to inflammatory markers: the CARDIA study. Mol Med. 2007 Mar-Apr; 13(3-4):178-84.
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Effect of age and gender on sudomotor and cardiovagal function and blood pressure response to tilt in normal subjects. Muscle Nerve. 1997 Dec; 20(12):1561-8.