Electro-acupuncture stimulation acts on the basal ganglia output pathway to ameliorate motor impairment in parkinsonian model rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 305-310

  Jia, Jun ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Sun, Zuo Li ^a   Yu, Fen ^a   Wang, Xuan ^a   Wang, Xiao Min ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DA; Electro acupuncture; GABA; Parkinson's disease; Rota Rod treadmill

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; RAT; THERAPY EFFECT;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARKINSON DISEASE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 77951634882     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018931     Document Type: Article

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