Disruption of glial function regulates the effects of electro-acupuncture at tsusanli on gastric activity in rats

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 647-656

  Wang, Sheng Zhi ^a   Liu, Xiao Dong ^b   Huang, Yu Xin ^a   Ma, Qing Jiu ^a   Wang, Jing Jie ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dorsal vagal complex; Electro acupuncture; Gastric activity; Glial cells; Tsusanli

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROPENTOFYLLINE; PROTEIN OX42; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AT TSUSANLI; ELECTROGASTROGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STOMACH FUNCTION; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; VAGUS NERVE; XANTHINES;

EID: 69049111941     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X09007132     Document Type: Article

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