{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18(4)"],"submitter":["Liu YL"],"pubmed_abstract":["Microglia are the brain's primary innate immune cells, and they are activated and affect pro-inflammatory phenotype or regulatory phenotype after ischemic stroke. Vagus nerve stimulation was shown to activate microglial phenotypic changes and exhibit neuroprotective effects in ischemia/reperfusion injury. In this study, we established rat models of ischemic stroke by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery and performed vagus nerve stimulation 30 minutes after modeling. We found that vagus nerve stimulation caused a shift from a pro-inflammatory phenotype to a regulatory phenotype in microglia in the ischemic penumbra. Vagus nerve stimulation decreased the levels of pro-inflammatory phenotype markers inducible nitric oxide synthase and tumor necrosis factor α and increased the expression o"],"journal":["Neural regeneration research"],"pagination":["825-831"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9700118"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Vagus nerve stimulation is a potential treatment for ischemic stroke."],"pmcid":["PMC9700118"],"pubmed_authors":["Ma JX","Jia GW","Liu YL","Yu LH","Wang SR"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Vagus nerve stimulation is a potential treatment for ischemic stroke.","description":"Microglia are the brain's primary innate immune cells, and they are activated and affect pro-inflammatory phenotype or regulatory phenotype after ischemic stroke. Vagus nerve stimulation was shown to activate microglial phenotypic changes and exhibit neuroprotective effects in ischemia/reperfusion injury. In this study, we established rat models of ischemic stroke by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery and performed vagus nerve stimulation 30 minutes after modeling. We found that vagus nerve stimulation caused a shift from a pro-inflammatory phenotype to a regulatory phenotype in microglia in the ischemic penumbra. Vagus nerve stimulation decreased the levels of pro-inflammatory phenotype markers inducible nitric oxide synthase and tumor necrosis factor α and increased the expression o","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Apr","modification":"2025-04-19T22:39:09.776Z","creation":"2025-04-19T22:39:09.776Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9700118","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36204850"],"doi":["10.4103/1673-5374.350698"]}}