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Acupuncture for cancer pain in adults. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Forty percent of individuals with early or intermediate stage cancer and 90% with advanced cancer have moderate to severe pain and up to 70% of patients with cancer pain do not receive adequate pain relief.
Akhileswaran, Alimi, Alimi, Aung, Bardia, Beuken-van Everdingen, Beuken-van Everdingen, Brainin-Mattos, Carr, Cata, Chen, Chen, Coleman, Dang, Dang, Dang, Davis, Derry, Dillon, Ernst, Ernst, Ezzo, Filshie, Filshie, Filshie, Furlan, Goudas, Gralow, Green, Guo, He, Higgins, Hopwood, Jadad, Johnson, Keskinbora, Kwon, Laird, Lee, Lipton, Lund, Lundeberg, Lundeberg, MacPherson, Manheimer, Manheimer, Mao-Ying, Mao-Ying, Mehling, Meng, Minton, Nguyen, Payne, Petrut, Poulain, Qaseem, Ripamonti, Rosier, Sima, Strong, Sun, Trinh, Twycross, Urch, Vallerand, White, White, White, Xia, Yu, Zhang   +70 more
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Are All Placebo Effects Equal? Placebo Pills, Sham Acupuncture, Cue Conditioning and Their Association [PDF]

, 2013
Placebo treatments and healing rituals have been used to treat pain throughout history. The present within-subject crossover study examines the variability in individual responses to placebo treatment with verbal suggestion and visual cue conditioning by
A Hrobjartsson, AD Wasan, AH Roberts, AJ de Craen, AL Geers, AL Geers, Amanda Cook, AR Goldman, B Whalley, Brian Claggett, DD Price, DG Finniss, DL Morton, EF Traut, EW Passarelli, GH Montgomery, H Brody, Irving Kirsch, J Charron, J Kleinhenz, J Kong, J Kong, J Kong, J Kong, Jian Kong, Jordan W. Smoller, K Linde, K Linde, K Streitberger, L Colloca, Mark Vangel, NJ Voudouris, P Huber, P White, Randy L. Gollub, RF Grenfell, RH Gracely, RH Gracely, Rosa Spaeth, S Gelfand, Sam Eldabe, TD Wager, Ted J. Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, U Bingel, U Bingel, V De Pascalis, WJ Conover   +51 more
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Postoperative analgesic efficacy of ear acupuncture in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy: a randomized controlled trial

BMC Anesthesiology, 2020
Background Numerous studies have revealed that acupuncture can increase the somatic pain threshold. Electro-acupuncture (EA) can help pain-relieving with minimal physiologic disturbance.
Hamdy A. Hendawy, Mohamed E. Abuelnaga
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Immediate Analgesic Effect of Acupuncture in Patients With Primary Dysmenorrhea: A fMRI Study

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) is a common gynecological disease characterized by lower abdominal pain. Acupuncture is considered a good alternative therapy for PDM. However, the central mechanism of the analgesic effect of acupuncture is largely unknown. In
Yanan Wang, Jing Xu, Qing Zhang, Qi Zhang, Ya Yang, Wei Wei, Xiaoli Guo, Fanrong Liang, Siyi Yu, Jie Yang   +9 more
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Expectancy and Treatment Interactions: A Dissociation between Acupuncture Analgesia and Expectancy Evoked Placebo Analgesia [PDF]

, 2008
Recent advances in placebo research have demonstrated the mind's power to alter physiology. In this study, we combined an expectancy manipulation model with both verum and sham acupuncture treatments to address: 1) how and to what extent treatment and ...
Amanzio, Beecher, Benedetti, Benedetti, Benedetti, Benedetti, Benedetti, Bingel, Brinkhaus, Bruce Rosen, Bush, Carolyn Zyloney, Charron, Colloca, Colloca, Colloca, Colloca, Craggs, Curran, De Pascalis, Dougherty, Ernst, Fang, Flaten, Fregni, Ginger Polich, Gracely, Gracely, Haake, Han, Hui, Hui, Irving Kirsch, Jian Kong, Kaptchuk, Kaptchuk, Kaptchuk, Kaptchuk, Kaptchuk, Kirmayer, Kirsch, Kirsch, Kirsch, Kleijnen, Kleinhenz, Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong, Kong, Landauer, Langevin, Langevin, Langevin, Langevin, Langevin, Langevin, Leibing, Levine, Li, Li, Lieberman, Linde, Linde, Linde, Lyerly, Mark Vangel, Mayer, McKay, McManus, Melchart, Melzack, Mesulam, Miller, Montgomery, Muntaner, Napadow, Napadow, Napadow, Pariente, Penick, Penick, Perkins, Petrovic, Petrovic, Pomeranz, Price, Price, Price, Randy Gollub, Scott, Scott, Shapiro, Streitberger, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Vogt, Voudouris, Wager, Wager, White, Wu, Wu, Yoo, Zhang, Zhang, Zubieta   +109 more
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Stimulation of TRPV1 by green laser light [PDF]

, 2012
Low-level laser irradiation of visible light had been introduced as a medical treatment already more than 40 years ago, but its medical application still remains controversial.
Gu, Quanbao, Huang, Fang, Schwarz, Wolfgang, Wang, Lina   +3 more
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Inhibition of activity of GABA transporter GAT1 by δ-opioid receptor [PDF]

, 2012
Analgesia is a well-documented effect of acupuncture. A critical role in pain sensation plays the nervous system, including the GABAergic system and opioid receptor (OR) activation.
Fucke, Thomas, Gu, Quanbao, Pei, Gang, Pu, Lu, Ren, Shuanglai, Schwarz, Wolfgang, Xia, Peng, Xu, Nanjie   +7 more
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Frequency-Specific Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Oscillations Associated With Pain Relief From Ankle Acupuncture in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Objective: Recent advances in brain imaging have deepened our knowledge of the neural activity in distinct brain areas associated with acupuncture analgesia.
Anfeng Xiang, Anfeng Xiang, Meiyu Chen, Chuan Qin, Jun Rong, Can Wang, Xueyong Shen, Sheng Liu   +7 more
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On the G-protein-coupled receptor heteromers and their allosteric receptor-receptor interactions in the central nervous system: focus on their role in pain modulation [PDF]

, 2013
The modulatory role of allosteric receptor-receptor interactions in the pain pathways of the Central Nervous System and the peripheral nociceptors has become of increasing interest.
Agnati, Luigi F, Borroto-Escuela, Dasiel O, Fuxe, Kjell, Rivera, Alicia, Romero-Fernandez, Wilber, Tarakanov, Alexander O, Van Craenenbroeck, Kathleen   +6 more
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Information Models of Acupuncture Analgesia and Meridian Channels

Information, 2010
Acupuncture and meridian channels have been major components of Chinese and Eastern Asian medicine—especially for analgesia—for over 2000 years. In recent decades, electroacupuncture (EA) analgesia has been applied clinically and experimentally. However,
Chang Hua Zou, Kang Cheng
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