The Cholinergic Anti-inflammatory Pathway: A Missing Link in Neuroimmunomodulation
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The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway: a missing link in neuroimmunomodulation.
This review outlines the mechanisms underlying the interaction between the nervous and immune systems of the host in response to an immune challenge. The main focus is the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, which we recently described as a novel function of the efferent vagus nerve. This pathway plays a critical role in controlling the inflammatory response through interaction with peripher...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Medicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1076-1551,1528-3658
DOI: 10.1007/bf03402177