"Vagus Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vagus Nerve" by people in Profiles.
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Lu VB, Rievaj J, O'Flaherty EA, Smith CA, Pais R, Pattison LA, Tolhurst G, Leiter AB, Bulmer DC, Gribble FM, Reimann F. Adenosine triphosphate is co-secreted with glucagon-like peptide-1 to modulate intestinal enterocytes and afferent neurons. Nat Commun. 2019 03 04; 10(1):1029.
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Gombash SE, Cowley CJ, Fitzgerald JA, Lepak CA, Neides MG, Hook K, Todd LJ, Wang GD, Mueller C, Kaspar BK, Bielefeld EC, Fischer AJ, Wood JD, Foust KD. Systemic gene delivery transduces the enteric nervous system of guinea pigs and cynomolgus macaques. Gene Ther. 2017 10; 24(10):640-648.
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Anaclet C, Ferrari L, Arrigoni E, Bass CE, Saper CB, Lu J, Fuller PM. The GABAergic parafacial zone is a medullary slow wave sleep-promoting center. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Sep; 17(9):1217-24.
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Hildreth V, Webb S, Bradshaw L, Brown NA, Anderson RH, Henderson DJ. Cells migrating from the neural crest contribute to the innervation of the venous pole of the heart. J Anat. 2008 Jan; 212(1):1-11.