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Figure 2: Protocols
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posted on 2019-06-12, 08:29 authored by Keimei Yoshida, Keita Saku, Kazuhiro Kamada, Kohtaro Abe, Mariko Tanaka-Ishikawa, Takeshi Tohyama, Takuya Nishikawa, Takuya Kishi, Kenji Sunagawa, Hiroyuki TsutsuiProtocol 1 assesses the therapeutic effects of 5-week chronic vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) delivered by an implantable neurostimulator in free-moving rats with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Protocol 2 assesses the effects of 90-min acute VNS delivered by an external stimulation device in anesthetized rats with advanced PAH. CTRL = control; O2 = oxygen; SS = sham stimulation.
