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Keywords:

vagus nerve, chronic pain, pain management, vagal nerve activation, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Anesthesiology, Clinical Neurology, Neurosciences & Neurology, HEART-RATE-VARIABILITY, CENTRAL SENSITIZATION, AFFERENT MODULATION, SPECTRAL-ANALYSIS, BLOOD-PRESSURE, STIMULATION, MODEL, NOCICEPTION, MECHANISMS, ANALGESIA, Animals, Cholinergic Agonists, Humans, Neurobiology, Pain, Pain Management, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1109 Neurosciences, 3202 Clinical sciences, 3209 Neurosciences

Abstract:

Pain is a complex common health problem, with important implications for quality of life and with huge economic consequences. Pain can be elicited due to tissue damage, as well as other multiple factors such as inflammation and oxidative stress. Can there be 1 therapeutic pathway that may target multiple etiologic factors in pain?