Electroacupuncture at LI11 promotes jejunal motility via the parasympathetic pathway

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hu, Xuanming ^a   Yuan, Mengqian ^a   Yin, Yin ^a   Wang, Yidan ^a   Li, Yuqin ^a   Zhang, Na ^a   Sun, Xueyi ^a   Yu, Zhi ^a   Xu, Bin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture (EA); Jejunal motility; LI11; Parasympathetic pathway; Sympathetic pathway

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CLENBUTEROL; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC M3 RECEPTOR; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; JEJUNAL MOTILITY; MALE; MANOMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; VAGOTOMY; ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; MALE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 85021086178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-017-1826-9     Document Type: Article

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