These observations indicated that sympathetic nerve-endings selectively took up and retained circulating catecholamines. This property enabled us to label the nerve-endings with tritiated ...

Research shows stimulating the vagus nerve can relieve a host of health problems and create feelings of calm. Could a new ...

Lung cancer is one of the most common and serious types of cancer with around 47,000 people diagnosed with the condition ...

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and collaborating institutions have found that overnutrition leads to insulin ...

When a friend is successful, do you feel uplifted or find inspiration in their accomplishments, rather than feeling resentment or envy? If so, you’re experiencing sympathetic joy, which scientists ...

Background. A 54-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with retrosternal chest pressure, nausea, and vomiting of 4 h duration. Her medical history included hypertension (treated with metoprolol ...

Following acute multiple trauma, hypothalamic stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands causes an increase in circulating corticoids and catecholamines, or a stress response.

Neuroblastoma occurs when immature nerve cells within the sympathetic nervous system - the part of the nervous system responsible for our ‘fight-or-flight’ responses - do not develop normally. There ...

The UMass Lowell NERVE Center is an interdisciplinary robotics testing, research, and training facility that evaluates robot capabilities, human performance, and human-robot interaction. The mission ...

Hypoglycemia is an extremely common side effect of insulin therapy experienced mainly by patients with type 1 diabetes ...

Tivic Health’s patented technology platform leverages stimulation on the trigeminal, sympathetic, and vagus nerve structures. Tivic Health’s non-invasive and targeted approach to the treatment of ...