Electroacupuncture frequency-related transcriptional response in rat arcuate nucleus revealed region-distinctive changes in response to low- and high-frequency electroacupuncture

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1464-1473

  Wang, Ke ^a,c   Zhang, Rong ^b   He, Fei ^c   Lin, Li Bo ^c   Xiang, Xiao Hui ^b   Ping, Xing Jie ^b   Han, Ji Sheng ^b   Zhao, Guo Ping ^a,c   Zhang, Qing Hua ^a,c   Cui, Cai Lian ^b  

^a National Engineering Research Center for Biochip at Shanghai   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Electroacupuncture; Transcriptional profile

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; NEURALGIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84862794949     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23028     Document Type: Article

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