Scientists discover why the heart slows down at night
A consensus more than 90-years-old on the mechanisms which regulate the day-night rhythm in heart rate has been fundamentally challenged by an international team of scientists from Manchester, London, Milan, Maastricht, Trondheim and Montpellier. The vagus nerve—one of the nerves of the autonomic nervous system which supplies internal organs including the heart—has long been thought […]
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