Electroacupuncture Acutely Improves Cerebral Blood Flow and Attenuates Moderate Ischemic Injury via an Endothelial Mechanism in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Ji Hyun ^a   Choi, Kyung Ha ^a   Jang, Young Jung ^a   Bae, Sun Sik ^b   Shin, Byung Cheul ^a   Choi, Byung Tae ^a   Shin, Hwa Kyoung ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MECAMYLAMINE; MUSCARINIC M3 RECEPTOR; PROPRANOLOL;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GENE SILENCING; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERAPY EFFECT; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M3; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 84873934186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056736     Document Type: Article

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