Electroacupuncture suppresses hyperalgesia and spinal Fos expression by activating the descending inhibitory system

Brain Research

Volumn 1186, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 171-179

  Li, Aihui ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Xin, Jiajia ^a   Lao, Lixing ^a   Ren, Ke ^b   Berman, Brian M ^a   Zhang, Rui Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Dorsolateral funiculus; Hyperalgesia; Locus coeruleus; Nucleus raphe magnus; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; PROTEIN FOS; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HYPERALGESIA; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

RATTUS;

EID: 37649000029     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.10.022     Document Type: Article

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