Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases: state of the art and future directions

MM Ottaviani, F Vallone, S Micera… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The autonomic nervous system exerts a fine beat-to-beat regulation of cardiovascular
functions and is consequently involved in the onset and progression of many cardiovascular …

A scoping review of current and emerging techniques for evaluation of peripheral nerve health, degeneration, and regeneration: Part 1, neurophysiology

R Mandeville, B Sanchez, B Johnston… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Peripheral neuroregeneration research and therapeutic options are expanding
exponentially. With this expansion comes an increasing need to reliably evaluate and …

Organotopic organization of the porcine mid-cervical vagus nerve

N Thompson, E Ravagli, S Mastitskaya… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Despite detailed characterization of fascicular organization of somatic nerves,
the functional anatomy of fascicles evident in human and large mammal cervical vagus …

Computational modelling of nerve stimulation and recording with peripheral visceral neural interfaces

CD Eiber, SC Payne, NP Biscola… - Journal of neural …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Neuromodulation of visceral nerves is being intensively studied for treating a wide
range of conditions, but effective translation requires increasing the efficacy and …

Organ-and function-specific anatomical organization and bioelectronic modulation of the vagus nerve

N Jayaprakash, V Toth, W Song, A Vardhan, T Levy… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Afferent and efferent fibers in the vagus nerve travel inside fascicles and form branches to
innervate organs and regulate organ functions. The spatial organization of fibers and …

Fibers in smaller fascicles have lower activation thresholds with cuff electrodes due to thinner perineurium and smaller cross-sectional area

CJ Davis, ED Musselman, WM Grill… - Journal of neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In nerve stimulation therapies, fibers in larger fascicles generally have higher
activation thresholds, but the mechanisms are not well understood. We implemented and …

Closed-loop Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation Using a Selectively Recording and Bidirectional Nerve Cuff Interface

YCE Hwang, L Long, J Sales Filho… - … on Neural Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discriminating recorded afferent neural information can provide sensory feedback for closed-
loop control of functional electrical stimulation, which restores movement to paralyzed limbs …

Organotopic organization of the cervical vagus nerve

N Thompson, E Ravagli, S Mastitskaya, F Iacoviello… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Despite detailed characterization of fascicular organization of somatic nerves, the functional
anatomy of fascicles evident in human and large mammal cervical vagus nerve is unknown …

Mapping the functional anatomy and topography of the cardiac autonomic innervation for selective cardiac neuromodulation using MicroCT

B Kronsteiner, LM Zopf, P Heimel, G Oberoi… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has gained great importance as a promising
therapy for a myriad of diseases. Of particular interest is the therapy of cardiovascular …

Deep-learning segmentation of fascicles from microCT of the human vagus nerve

ON Buyukcelik, M Lapierre-Landry, C Kolluru… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction MicroCT of the three-dimensional fascicular organization of the human vagus
nerve provides essential data to inform basic anatomy as well as the development and …