Chronic Electrical Stimulation at Acupoints Reduces Body Weight and Improves Blood Glucose in Obese Rats via Autonomic Pathway

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1209-1216

  Liu, Jiemin ^a,b,c   Jin, Haifeng ^a,b,d   Foreman, Robert D ^b   Lei, Yong ^a   Xu, Xiaohong ^a   Li, Shiying ^a   Yin, Jieyun ^a,e   Chen, Jiande D Z ^a,e,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c GUIZHOU PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG CHINESE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Ningbo Pace Medical Research Center   (China)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic pathway; Diabetes; Electroacupuncture; Gastrointestinal motility; Neuromodulation; Obesity

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; PEPTIDE YY; GHRELIN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET INDUCED OBESITY; DIET RESTRICTION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD; EATING; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; METABOLISM; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VAGUS NERVE;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FASTING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GHRELIN; GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE 1; MALE; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PEPTIDE YY; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84930753942     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-014-1521-6     Document Type: Article

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