The cumulative analgesic effect of repeated electroacupuncture involves synaptic remodeling in the hippocampal CA3 region

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1378-1385

  Xu, Qiuling ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Chen, Shuping ^b   Gao, Yonghui ^b   Wang, Junying ^b   Qiao, Lina ^b   Liu, Junling ^b  

^a HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Acupuncture analgesia; Calcium calmodulin dependent protein kinase II; Chronic neuropathic pain; Cumulative effect; Electroacupuncture; Hippocampal CA3 region; Neural regeneration; Neurobiology; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 84864327543     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2012.18.003     Document Type: Article

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