The Role of the Vagus Nerve: Modulation of the Inflammatory Reaction in Murine Polymicrobial Sepsis

Figure 3

Images of MRI of the upper abdomen of mice. The asterisk identifies the stomach. Panel a shows the sectional image of an untreated mouse with normal gastric volume (a). Panel b displays the representative scan of a mouse with increased gastric volume after CASP and vagotomy (b). Values of gastric volume are shown in panel c. CASP alone led to a slight but significant increase of gastric volume. In both vagotomy groups, a strong dilatation of the stomach was measured that was independent from the presence of sepsis (c). (𝑛=6 per group, *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, and ***𝑃<0.0001).

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