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Hu ML, Qiu ZY, Hu K, et al. Analgesic Neural Circuits Are Activated by Electroacupuncture at Two Sets of Acupoints. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2016;2016:3840202doi: 10.1155/2016/3840202.
Hu, M. L., Qiu, Z. Y., Hu, K., & Ding, M. X. (2016). Analgesic Neural Circuits Are Activated by Electroacupuncture at Two Sets of Acupoints. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 20163840202. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/3840202
Hu, Man-Li, et al. "Analgesic Neural Circuits Are Activated by Electroacupuncture at Two Sets of Acupoints." Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM vol. 2016 (2016): 3840202. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/3840202
Hu ML, Qiu ZY, Hu K, Ding MX. Analgesic Neural Circuits Are Activated by Electroacupuncture at Two Sets of Acupoints. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2016;2016:3840202. doi: 10.1155/2016/3840202. Epub 2016 Jun 27. PMID: 27429635; PMCID: PMC4939346.
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Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2016;2016:3840202. doi: 10.1155/2016/3840202. Epub 2016 Jun 27.

Analgesic Neural Circuits Are Activated by Electroacupuncture at Two Sets of Acupoints.

Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM

Man-Li Hu, Zheng-Ying Qiu, Kuang Hu, Ming-Xing Ding

Affiliations

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
  2. College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.

PMID: 27429635 PMCID: PMC4939346 DOI: 10.1155/2016/3840202

Abstract

To investigate analgesic neural circuits activated by electroacupuncture (EA) at different sets of acupoints in the brain, goats were stimulated by EA at set of Baihui-Santai acupoints or set of Housanli acupoints for 30 min. The pain threshold was measured using the potassium iontophoresis method. The levels of c-Fos were determined with Streptavidin-Biotin Complex immunohistochemistry. The results showed pain threshold induced by EA at set of Baihui-Santai acupoints was 44.74% ± 4.56% higher than that by EA at set of Housanli acupoints (32.64% ± 5.04%). Compared with blank control, EA at two sets of acupoints increased c-Fos expression in the medial septal nucleus (MSN), the arcuate nucleus (ARC), the nucleus amygdala basalis (AB), the lateral habenula nucleus (HL), the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey (vlPAG), the locus coeruleus (LC), the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM), the pituitary gland, and spinal cord dorsal horn (SDH). Compared with EA at set of Housanli points, EA at set of Baihui-Santai points induced increased c-Fos expression in AB but decrease in MSN, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, HL, and SDH. It suggests that ARC-PAG-NRM/LC-SDH and the hypothalamus-pituitary may be the common activated neural pathways taking part in EA-induced analgesia at the two sets of acupoints.

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