Acupuncture at both ST25 and ST37 improves the pain threshold of chronic visceral hypersensitivity rats

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1914-1918

  Liu, Hui Rong ^a   Wang, Xiao Mei ^b   Zhou, En Hua ^c   Shi, Yin ^c   Li, Na ^c   Yuan, Ling Song ^c   Wu, Huan Gan ^c  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxytryptamine; Chronic visceral hypersensitivity; Electro acupuncture; Irritable bowel syndrome; Rat

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL REFLEX; ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT4; REFLEX; SEROTONIN; VISCERA;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349606142     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-009-9972-1     Document Type: Article

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