Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide and is expected to increase in prevalence. As a result of the individual and systemic healthcare impacts of CVD, heart failure, and its subsets, focusing on the alleviation of cardiac dysfunction and restoration of autonomic imbalance is paramount. Most research regarding cardiovascular disease is focused on mitigating heart failure from a cardiovascular perspective. However, this review will investigate heart failure from a neuroscientific perspective, highlighting the influence of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, autonomic imbalance, and neuroinflammation on the progression of heart failure. By doing so, this research will bring light to how neuroscience may be applied to the cardiovascular system, and how interventions, such as vagal nerve stimulation, may be an untapped resource in mitigating the progression of heart failure. This review examined current relevant research to understand the brain regions implicated in the progression of heart failure, and to better understand how the nervous system may be modulated to improve heart failure outcomes through vagal nerve stimulation. This review sets the conceptual framework for future research to examine the structural changes observed in research animals who receive vagal nerve stimulation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:asrf-1733 |
| Date | 18 March 2021 |
| Creators | Guhde, Isabel C, Moss, Conner |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Appalachian Student Research Forum |
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