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Increased Recovery Time and Decreased LPS Administration to Study the Vagus Nerve Stimulation Mechanisms in Limited Inflammatory Responses
Published on: March 29, 2017
A physiological perspective on neuroimmune tissue innervation
Daniel A Waizman1, Andrew Wang2
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Abstract:
Organisms must adapt to unpredictable environmental perturbations. We propose that the immune system, which can be redistributed across tissues ('immune innervation'), cooperates with the nervous system to form a larger integrative network that can maximize the number of adaptive physiologic states to a given perturbation.
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