Electroacupuncture elicits dual effects: Stimulation of delayed gastric emptying and inhibition of accelerated colonic transit induced by restraint stress in rats

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1493-1500

  Iwa, Masahiro ^a,b   Nakade, Yukiomi ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Takahashi, Toku ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic transit; Corticotropin releasing factor; Electroacupuncture; Gastric emptying; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GUANETHIDINE;

ACCELERATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LEG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RAT; STOMACH EMPTYING; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748188546     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9083-7     Document Type: Article

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