Electro-acupuncture attenuates stress-induced defecation in rats with chronic visceral hypersensitivity via serotonergic pathway

Brain Research

Volumn 1088, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-108

  Tian, Xiao Yu ^a   Bian, Zhao Xiang ^a   Hu, Xu Guang ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao Jun ^a   Liu, Liang ^a   Zhang, Hongqi ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b GuangDong Pharmaeutical College   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic visceral hypersensitivity (CVH); Electro acupuncture (EA); Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); Serotonin pathway

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STRESS; VISCERA; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DEFECATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT4; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISCERA;

EID: 33646537172     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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