How do acupuncture and moxibustion act? - Focusing on the progress in Japanese acupuncture research

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 443-459

  Kawakita, Kenji ^a   Shinbara, Hisashi ^a   Imai, Kenji ^a   Fukuda, Fumihiko ^a   Yano, Tadashi ^a   Kuriyama, Kinya ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture and moxibustion; Endogenous opioid; Polymodal receptor; Reward system; Somato autonomic reflex

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE;

ACUPUNCTURE; CHINA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOXIBUSTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PAIN; REVIEW; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; RESEARCH;

ACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOXIBUSTION; RESEARCH;

EID: 33747602386     PISSN: 13478613     EISSN: 13478648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1254/jphs.CRJ06004X     Document Type: Review

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