Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation inhibits mental stress-induced cortisol release-Potential implications for inflammatory conditions.

Physiol Rep · 2025 · PMC11815478 · PMID 39936474

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During the sham‐taVNS condition, this overall trend did not reach statistical significance.

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Salivary cortisol responses to the MAST Consistent with the diurnal changes in cortisol levels, there was an overall trend towards a decrease in absolute salivary cortisol levels throughout the 100 min of the experimental protocol (time effect in 2‐way ANOVA: DFn = 2.14, DFd = 23.51, F = 2.22, p = 0.128, Figure 3 , top, left).

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