Electroacupuncture improves cardiac function and remodeling by inhibition of sympathoexcitation in chronic heart failure rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Ma, Luyao ^a   Cui, Baiping ^b   Shao, Yongfeng ^a   Ni, Buqing ^a   Zhang, Weiran ^a   Luo, Yonggang ^a   Zhang, Shijiang ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiac sympathetic afferent reflex; Electroacupunture; Heart failure; Renal sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; METOPROLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC REMODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART WEIGHT; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

CARDIAC SYMPATHETIC AFFERENT REFLEX; ELECTROACUPUNTURE; HEART FAILURE; RENAL SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPSAICIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY SYSTEM AGENTS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84900543321     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00889.2013     Document Type: Article

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