Vagus nerve stimulation reduces spreading depolarization burden and cortical infarct volume in a rat model of stroke

• Jan Lindemann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

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• Cordula Rakers,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

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• Hana Matuskova,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany

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• Bruce J. Simon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation electroCore Inc., Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Thomas Kinfe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Division of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4888-543X

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• Gabor C. Petzold

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gabor.petzold@dzne.de

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany, Division of Vascular Neurology, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0145-8641

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