Electroacupuncture improves neuropathic pain Adenosine, adenosine 5＇-triphosphate disodium and their receptors perhaps change simultaneously

• Published in: Neural regeneration research Vol. 7; no. 33; pp. 2618 - 2623
• Main Authors: Ren, Wen, Tu, Wenzhan, Jiang, Songhe, Cheng, Ruidong, Du, Yaping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd 25.11.2012; Institute of Social & Family Medicine,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,Zhejiang Province,China%Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,The Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College,Wenzhou 325000,Zhejiang Province,China; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
• Subjects: Acupuncture and Moxibustion and Neural Regeneration; Adenosine diphosphate; Analgesics; Clinical medicine; Hyperalgesia; Narcotics; Nervous system; Pain; Peptides; Physiology; Spinal cord; 受体激动剂; 受体表达; 嘌呤受体; 疼痛; 磷酸二钠; 背根神经节神经元; 腺苷; 镇痛作用; adenosine; P2X purinoceptor 3 receptors; neuropathic pain; neural regeneration; A1 receptors; regeneration; analgesia; electroacupuncture; peripheral nervous system; adenosine 5’-triphosphate disodium; central nervous system; adenosine 5'-triphosphate disodium

Applying a stimulating current to acupoints through acupuncture needles–known as electroacupuncture–has the potential to produce analgesic effects in human subjects and experimental animals. When acupuncture was applied in a rat model, adenosine 5-triphosphate disodium in the extracellular space was...