What does vagotropic mean?
Vagotropic means Stimulating the vagus nerve..
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Stimulating the vagus nerve..
Capelle and Bayer believe that both the thyroid gland and the thymus gland produce an internal secretion that has two components, one sympathicotropic and one vagotropic.
These “vagotropic” actions can be referred to decreased irritability of the sympathetic nerve-endings.
This corresponds, as the authors stress, with our law since the epileptics are, after attacks, in a vagotonic situation; they therefore respond less to vagotropic stimuli.
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Vagotropic means Stimulating the vagus nerve..
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Capelle and Bayer believe that both the thyroid gland and the thymus gland produce an internal secretion that has two components, one sympathicotropic and one vagotropic.
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