Acupuncture for visceral pain: Neural substrates and potential mechanisms

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Shuping ^a   Wang, Shubin ^b   Rong, Peijing ^a   Wang, Junying ^a   Qiao, Lina ^a   Feng, Xiumei ^a   Liu, Junling ^a   Zhang, Jianliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b CHINA MEITAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE GATED ION CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; OPIATE; SEROTONIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 4; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL A1; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 4;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; CHINESE MEDICINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INTESTINE FLORA; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPINAL NERVE; VAGUS NERVE; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84921034005     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/609594     Document Type: Review

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