Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Alleviates Headache Symptoms in Migraine Model Mice by the Locus

Xingke Song1, Zijie Chen1, Haohan Zhu1

  • 1Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.

Biomedicines
|January 28, 2026
PubMed

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