The vagus nerve is so named because it “wanders” like a vagabond, sending out sensory fibers from your brainstem to your ...

Liver-projecting vagal sensory neurons play a key role in regulating energy balance, hepatic steatosis, and anxiety-like behavior in mice under obesogenic conditions. Modulating the liver-brain ...

The ‘electric pill’ for the parasympathetic nervous system The vagus nerve plays an important role in our body: it is the longest nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of the ...

Intestinal autonomic nerve system includes sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, which regulate cellular proliferation and function in intestine under physiological and pathophysiological ...

The cardiac autonomic nervous system (CANS) is associated with modulation of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis. In this mini review, we will briefly introduce cardiac autonomic anatomy ...

In keeping with this theme, the majority of neuronal structures in the cardiovascular system are components of either the sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic nervous system. Anatomically, the ...