Effects of acupuncture on abdominal leak point pressure and c-Fos expression in the brain of rats with stress urinary incontinence

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-23

  Chung, In Myong ^a   Kim, Youn Sub ^a   Sung, Yun Hee ^b   Kim, Sung Eun ^b   Ko, Il Gyu ^b   Shin, Mal Soon ^b   Park, Hi Joon ^c   Ham, Dae Hyun ^c   Lee, Hye Jung ^c   Kim, Ki Jeong ^b,d   Lee, Sang Won ^b,d   Jee, Yong Seok ^e   Kim, Khae Hawn ^a   Kim, Chang Ju ^b  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^e Hanseo University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abdominal leak point pressure; Acupuncture; c Fos; Stress urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS INCONTINENCE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PRESSURE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 44649121427     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.100     Document Type: Article

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