Acupuncture at ST 36 prevents chronic stress-induced increases in neuropeptide Y in rat

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-23

  Eshkevari, Ladan ^a   Egan, Rupert ^b   Phillips, Dylan ^a   Tilan, Jason ^a   Carney, Elissa ^b   Azzam, Nabil ^b   Amri, Hakima ^a   Mulroney, Susan E ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Pharmacology and Physiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Chronic stress; NPY; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHAM PROCEDURE; STOMACH; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; ACUPUNCTURE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84855858752     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2011.011224     Document Type: Article

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