Electroacupuncture mediates extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 pathways in the spinal cord of rats with inflammatory pain

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fang, Jian Qiao ^a   Fang, Jun Fan ^a   Liang, Yi ^a   Du, Jun Ying ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG CHINESE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analgesia; CFA; COX 2; CREB; Electroacupuncture; ERK1 2; Inflammatory pain; NK 1

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FREUND ADJUVANT; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; 1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; NITRILE;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HINDLIMB; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MYELITIS; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHAM PROCEDURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR; THERAPY EFFECT; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENZYMOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NITRILES; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84905820951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-285     Document Type: Article

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