Acupuncture stimulates the release of serotonin, but not dopamine, in the rat nucleus accumbens

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 321-326

  Yoshimoto, Kanji ^a   Fukuda, Fumihiko ^b   Hori, Masafumi ^a   Kato, Baku ^b   Kato, Hideaki ^a   Hattori, Hiroyuki ^c   Tokuda, Naoki ^a   Kuriyama, Kinya ^b   Yano, Tadashi ^b   Yasuhara, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Integrative medicine; Monoamines; Nucleus accumbens; Rat

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MONOAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MICRODIALYSIS; MONOAMINE RELEASE; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; REWARD; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN;

EID: 33645227115     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.208.321     Document Type: Article

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