Electro-acupuncture relieves visceral sensitivity and decreases hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone levels in a rat model of irritable bowel syndrome

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 465, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-237

  Wu, Huan gan ^a   Liu, Hui rong ^a   Zhang, Zeng an ^b   Zhou, En hua ^a   Wang, Xiao mei ^c   Jiang, Bin ^a   Shi, Zheng ^a   Zhou, Ci li ^a   Qi, Li ^a   Ma, Xiao peng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b TAIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Electro acupuncture; Irritable bowel syndrome; Rat; Visceral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTESTINE DISTENSION; IRRITABLE COLON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; COLON; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 70349786470     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.09.018     Document Type: Article

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