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Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulates depression-like phenotype induced by high-fat diet via P2X7R/NLRP3/IL-1β in the prefrontal cortex.
CNS neuroscience & therapeutics - 1 May 2024
Li Shaoyuan, Zhang Yuzhengheng, Wang Yu, Zhang Zixuan, Xin Chen, Wang Yifei, Rong Peijing
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BACKGROUND: Depression is a common psychiatric disorder in diabetic patients. Depressive mood associated with obesity/metabolic disorders is related to the inflammatory response caused by long-term consumption of high-fat diets, but its molecular mechanism is unclear. In this study, we investigated whether the antidepressant effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) in high-fat diet rats...
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