Interdisciplinary squad brings unneurotic 8 institutions crossed the globe for a first-of-a-kind study
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Oct. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers are starring a broad planetary objective survey that seeks to uncover the functional effects of vagus nervus stimulation (VNS) crossed the quality body.
The Research Evaluating Vagal Excitation and Anatomical Links (REVEAL) task is simply a $21 cardinal National Institutes of Health-funded task that volition instrumentality spot implicit 3 years. REVEAL aims to survey the anatomical connections and functional effects of vagus nervus stimulation, oregon VNS, which is an FDA-approved attraction for epilepsy and depression.
REVEAL incorporates a large-scale objective survey with up to 144 VNS patients on with 3 ancillary studies. Together, these studies volition measure autonomic, cardiovascular, metabolic, immune, and gastrointestinal relation successful effect to a wide scope of VNS parameters. Researchers anticipation to make 1 of the largest publically disposable datasets connected VNS relation successful humans.
“The vagus nervus conveys accusation from the encephalon to astir organs successful the assemblage and vice versa,” said John Osborn, PhD, a prof of country astatine the University of Minnesota Medical School and manager of the Minnesota Consortium for Autonomic Neuromodulation. “Dysregulation of the vagus nervus underlies galore pathological conditions, and we are conscionable present discovering ways to modulate it to dainty them.”
“VNS has a proven grounds treating refractory epilepsy and depression,” said Ziad Nahas, MD, a prof astatine the University of Minnesota Medical School and a psychiatrist astatine M Physicians. “The breathtaking facet of REVEAL is that it volition acceptable the signifier for caller therapeutic applications of VNS to autonomic, immune, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases.”
During the REVEAL studies, participants with implanted VNS devices volition person a wide scope of tests to measurement physiological, molecular, imaging, genetic, and neural responses to VNS, on with galore different experimental and computational outcomes.
“A task involving truthful galore types of measures and physiological systems requires a immense interdisciplinary team. We are fortunate to bring unsocial experts unneurotic involving much than 40 researchers from astir the world, including 30 from the University of Minnesota,” said Hubert Lim, PhD, a biomedical engineering prof successful the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering with a associated assignment successful the Medical School.
A portion of NIH’s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) initiative, REVEAL is funded — grant fig 1U54AT012307 — by NIH Common Fund and administered by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. People funny successful participating tin nonstop a query to REVEAL@umn.edu.
From the University of Minnesota, the survey squad includes module from aggregate departments crossed the Medical School, the College of Science and Engineering, and the School of Public Health. These module besides correspond the Center for Neuroengineering, the Institute for Engineering successful Medicine, the Center for Quality Outcomes, Discovery and Evaluation (C-QODE) and the Minnesota Consortium for Autonomic Neuromodulation.
Osborn, Nahas, and Lim, are joined by 3 different REVEAL main investigators: Sayeed Ikramuddin, the seat of the country section successful the Medical School; Lynn Eberly, an subordinate dean for module affairs and prof successful the School of Public Health; and Vaughan Macefield, a prof astatine Monash University successful Melbourne, Australia.
Collaborating institutions see Mayo Clinic successful Minnesota; Monash University successful Australia; Stanford School of Medicine; Washington University successful St. Louis; Medical University of South Carolina; Sheppard Pratt successful Maryland; and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna successful Italy. Company partners see LivaNova, BRIGHT Research Partners, and BIOS.
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