Acupuncture-Induced Analgesia: The Role of Microglial Inhibition
Cell Transplantation, 2016 The last three decades have documented preclinical and clinical data supporting the use of acupuncture in relieving symptoms of many diseases, including allergies, infections, and neurological disorders.
Lili Lin +6 more
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, 2018 Acupuncture is shown as a treatment to reduce some types of pain, a compendium of some reviews on analgesia and pain is presented, but mainly the acupuncture technique.
Leyva, T. F. (Thalia) +3 more
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Brain and Behavior, 2020 Aims To investigate the functional connectivity (FC) in nonacute sciatica and the neuronal correlation of acupuncture analgesia. Methods A prospective study employing resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging was conducted.
Ching‐Hsiung Liu +10 more
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Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis (ACUSAR) - Design and Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Multi-Centre Trial [PDF]
, 2010 Background: We report on the study design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial (Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, ACUSAR) that investigates the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR).
Brinkhaus, Benno +11 more
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Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects [PDF]
, 2010 Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that `physical placebos' (which included sham acupuncture) were associated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than ...
Linde, Klaus +2 more
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Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1992 Acupuncture-produced surgical analgesia has been demonstrated in a wide variety of species under experimental and clinical circumstances. The main advantage is that no depressant drugs need to be used. The disadvantages of its use are unfamiliarity, the need for special equipment, inconsistent effects, and lack of restraint.
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c-Fos expression induced by electroacupuncture at the Zusanli point in rats submitted to repeated immobilization [PDF]
, 2003 In laboratory animals, acupuncture needs to be performed on either anesthetized or, if unanesthetized, restrained subjects. Both procedures up-regulate c-Fos expression in several areas of the central nervous system, representing therefore a major ...
Canteras, N.s. +3 more
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Unanticipated Insights into Biomedicine from the Study of Acupuncture [PDF]
, 2016 Research into acupuncture has had ripple effects beyond the field of acupuncture. This paper identifies five exemplars to illustrate that there is tangible evidence of the way insights gleaned from acupuncture research have informed biomedical research ...
Arsenault M-Y +24 more
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Patient attitudes towards analgesia and their openness to non-pharmacological methods such as acupuncture in the emergency department [PDF]
, 2018 Aims: To investigate patient attitudes to analgesia, opioids and non-pharmacological analgesia including acupuncture, in the ED. Methods: ED patients with pain were surveyed regarding: pain scores, satisfaction, addiction concern, non-pharmacological ...
Aldridge, Emogene S +5 more
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Brain connectivity Patterns Dissociate action of specific Acupressure Treatments in Fatigued Breast cancer survivors [PDF]
, 2017 Funding This work was supported by grants R01 CA151445 and 2UL1 TR000433-06 from the National Institutes of Health. The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data ...
Basu, Neil +6 more
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