Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a drug treatment to stop the dizziness, light-headedness and fainting that patients experience who suffer from a common form of impaired nerve transmission known ...

The autonomic nervous system innervates all body organs, including the cardiovascular system. Smooth muscle in arteries, arterioles, and veins and pericytes in capillaries receive autonomic ...

VZV causes chickenpox (varicella), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic nervous system ganglia along the entire neuraxis. Decades later, a declining ...

A minimally invasive procedure that's long been used to ease headaches and irregular heartbeats might also restore a sense of smell to people who lost it after COVID-19, new research shows. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract α -Bungarotoxin binds to nicotinic receptors in skeletal muscle, blocking neuromuscular transmission. Because this toxin has recently been ...

In one of the very early examples of activity dependent gene expression, we showed that stimulation of the cervical sympathetic trunk led to an increase in the activity of protein level, and mRNA ...

Share on Pinterest A new study suggests that aerobic exercise may help reshape part of the body’s nervous system. Getty Images A rat study has found that aerobic exercise may reshape nerves that ...

Frequent exercise doesn't just strengthen the heart—it also changes the nerves that control it, according to new research which could guide more targeted and effective care for common heart problems.