Electroacupuncture protects the brain against acute ischemic injury via up-regulation of delta-opioid receptor in rats

Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 632-638

  Tian, Xue Song ^a   Zhou, Fei ^a,b   Yang, Ru ^a   Xia, Ying ^b,c   Wu, Gen Chen ^a   Guo, Jing Chun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Research Center of Acupuncture and Meridian   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Ischemic attack; Opioid receptor delta; Rats; Transient

Indexed keywords

DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALTRINDOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPERFUSION INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; REPERFUSION INJURY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 46049093779     PISSN: 16721977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3736/jcim20080617     Document Type: Article

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