Suspended moxibustion relieves chronic visceral hyperalgesia via serotonin pathway in the colon

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 451, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-147

  Zhou, En hua ^a   Liu, Hui rong ^a   Wu, Huan gan ^a   Shi, Yin ^a   Wang, Xiao mei ^b   Tan, Lin ying ^a   Yao, Li qing ^b   Zhong, Yun shi ^b   Jiang, Yan ^a   Zhang, Ling ling ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxytryptamine; Chronic visceral hypersensitivity; Irritable bowel syndrome; Rat; Suspended moxibustion

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VISCERAL HYPERALGESIA; COLON; COLON DILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUM; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TISSUE LEVEL; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SEROTONIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 58549109418     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.12.026     Document Type: Article

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