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The vagus nerve carries gut signals to the brain
Roughly eighty percent of vagus fibres are sensory, reporting from organs to brain The vagus nerve links the brainstem with the heart, lungs and digestive tract. Most of its fibres run upward, carrying information about stretch, chemistry and inflammation. The gut also contains its own dense nerve network, sometimes called the enteric nervous system. It sits in Mondo's human body collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The vagus nerve carries gut signals to the brain: the short answers
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- Roughly eighty percent of vagus fibres are sensory, reporting from organs to brain. The figure is taken from NIH, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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