Electroacupuncture activates corticotrophin-releasing hormone-containing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalammus to alleviate edema in a rat model of inflammation

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, Aihui ^a   Lao, Lixing ^a   Wang, Yi ^b   Xin, Jiajia ^a   Ren, Ke ^c   Berman, Brian M ^a   Tan, Ming ^d   Zhang, Ruixin ^a  

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

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; FREUND ADJUVANT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FOOT; HINDFOOT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THERMAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; EDEMA; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EDEMA; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 44649172510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-8-20     Document Type: Article

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