Acupuncture blocks cold stress-induced increases in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in the rat

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-104

  Eshkevari, Ladan ^a   Permaul, Eva ^b   Mulroney, Susan E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Departments of Histopathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; HPA; SNS; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; CHRONIC STRESS; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; STOMACH; ACUPUNCTURE; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COLD SHOCK RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INNERVATION; LEG; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; COLD-SHOCK RESPONSE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877143053     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-12-0404     Document Type: Review

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