Understanding the Pivotal Role of the Vagus Nerve in Health from Pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic seems endless with the regular emergence of new variants. Is the SARS-CoV-2 virus particularly evasive to the immune system, or is it merely disrupting communication between the body and the brain, thus pre-empting homeostasis? Retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 and AIDS pa...

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Autores principales: Rangon, Claire-Marie, Niezgoda, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36004877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9080352
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description The COVID-19 pandemic seems endless with the regular emergence of new variants. Is the SARS-CoV-2 virus particularly evasive to the immune system, or is it merely disrupting communication between the body and the brain, thus pre-empting homeostasis? Retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 and AIDS pandemics, as well as prion disease, emphasizes the pivotal but little-known role of the 10th cranial nerve in health. Considering neuroimmunometabolism from the point of view of the vagus nerve, non-invasive bioengineering solutions aiming at monitoring and stimulating the vagal tone are subsequently discussed as the next optimal and global preventive treatments, far beyond pandemics.
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spelling pubmed-94053602022-08-26 Understanding the Pivotal Role of the Vagus Nerve in Health from Pandemics Rangon, Claire-Marie Niezgoda, Adam Bioengineering (Basel) Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic seems endless with the regular emergence of new variants. Is the SARS-CoV-2 virus particularly evasive to the immune system, or is it merely disrupting communication between the body and the brain, thus pre-empting homeostasis? Retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 and AIDS pandemics, as well as prion disease, emphasizes the pivotal but little-known role of the 10th cranial nerve in health. Considering neuroimmunometabolism from the point of view of the vagus nerve, non-invasive bioengineering solutions aiming at monitoring and stimulating the vagal tone are subsequently discussed as the next optimal and global preventive treatments, far beyond pandemics. MDPI 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9405360/ /pubmed/36004877 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9080352 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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