India, Oct. 2 -- The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has isolated the electrical activity of individual neurones responsible for cardiovascular regulation.

Published in The Journal of Physiology, the Monash University-led discovery paves the way for more research into how and why cardiovascular disease develops.

Monash University's Professor Vaughan Macefield was the first to record electrical signals from the vagus nerve in awake humans in 2020. Before that, our understanding of the physiology of this nerve - which supplies the heart, airways and other organs within the thorax and abdomen - came entirely from animal work.

Now, in another first, researchers from the Human Autonomic Neurophysiology Laboratory in M...