Effect and mechanism of acupuncture on gastrointestinal diseases

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 273-294

  Takahashi, Toku ^a  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Brain stem; Hypothalamus; Opioids; Oxytocin; Qi; Somatosensory pathway

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; DIAZEPAM; OPIATE; OXYTOCIN; PEXACERFONT; PLACEBO; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IRRITABLE COLON; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VISCERAL PAIN; VOMITING;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; OPIOIDS; OXYTOCIN; QI; SOMATOSENSORY PATHWAY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 84887365952     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411545-3.00014-6     Document Type: Chapter

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