Overview of bee pollination and its economic value for crop production

SAM Khalifa, EH Elshafiey, AA Shetaia, AAA El-Wahed… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a rising demand for food security in the face of threats posed by a
growing human population. Bees as an insect play a crucial role in crop pollination …

Current directions in the auricular vagus nerve stimulation I–a physiological perspective

E Kaniusas, S Kampusch, M Tittgemeyer… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Electrical stimulation of the auricular vagus nerve (aVNS) is an emerging technology in the
field of bioelectronic medicine with applications in therapy. Modulation of the afferent vagus …

A wireless millimetre-scale implantable neural stimulator with ultrasonically powered bidirectional communication

DK Piech, BC Johnson, K Shen, MM Ghanbari… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Clinically approved neural stimulators are limited by battery requirements, as well as by their
large size compared with the stimulation targets. Here, we describe a wireless, leadless and …

Therapeutic targeting of inflammation in hypertension: from novel mechanisms to translational perspective

EC Murray, R Nosalski, N MacRitchie… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Both animal models and human observational and genetic studies have shown that immune
and inflammatory mechanisms play a key role in hypertension and its complications. We …

A review for the peripheral nerve interface designer

CE Larson, E Meng - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2020 - Elsevier
Informational density and relative accessibility of the peripheral nervous system make it an
attractive site for therapeutic intervention. Electrode-based electrophysiological interfaces …

Selective neuromodulation of the vagus nerve

A Fitchett, S Mastitskaya, K Aristovich - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an effective technique for the treatment of refractory
epilepsy and shows potential for the treatment of a range of other serious conditions …

The Microbead: A 0.009 mm3 Implantable Wireless Neural Stimulator

A Khalifa, Y Liu, Y Karimi, Q Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wirelessly powered implants are increasingly being developed to interface with neurons in
the brain. They often rely on microelectrode arrays, which are limited by their ability to cover …

[HTML][HTML] Nanostructured platinum grass enables superior impedance reduction for neural microelectrodes

C Boehler, T Stieglitz, M Asplund - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Micro-sized electrodes are essential for highly sensitive communication at the neural
interface with superior spatial resolution. However, such small electrodes inevitably suffer …

Functional vagotopy in the cervical vagus nerve of the domestic pig: implications for the study of vagus nerve stimulation

ML Settell, NA Pelot, BE Knudsen… - Journal of neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Given current clinical interest in vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), there are
surprisingly few studies characterizing the anatomy of the vagus nerve in large animal …

[HTML][HTML] Organ-and function-specific anatomical organization of vagal fibers supports fascicular vagus nerve stimulation

N Jayaprakash, W Song, V Toth, A Vardhan, T Levy… - Brain stimulation, 2023 - Elsevier
Vagal fibers travel inside fascicles and form branches to innervate organs and regulate
organ functions. Existing vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapies activate vagal fibers non …