ArticleJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)2008
The status and future of acupuncture mechanism research.
Article in Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
59 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 228 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acupoint Sensitivity in Health and Disease: A Systematic Review.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2024Pooled it
- An Overview of Systematic Reviews of Acupuncture for Infertile Women UndergoingFrontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Integrative Medicine in Plastic Surgery: A Systematic Review of Our Literature.Annals of plastic surgery · 2019Pooled it
- Electroacupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for motor dysfunction in acute stroke survivors: a systematic review and meta-analyses.BMJ open · 2018Pooled it
- Acupuncture for dysmenorrhoea.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Acupuncture for Erectile Dysfunction: A Systematic Review.BioMed research international · 2016Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of Baihui (GV20)-based scalp acupuncture in experimental ischemic stroke.Scientific reports · 2014Pooled it
- How large are the nonspecific effects of acupuncture? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC medicine · 2010Pooled it
- Moxibustion for cancer care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2010Pooled it
- Physiological impact of nanoporous acupuncture needles: Laser Doppler perfusion imaging in healthy volunteers.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Whole Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals How Acupuncture and Moxibustion Increase Pregnancy Rate in Patients Undergoing In Vitro Fertilization-Embryo Transplantation.BioMed research international · 2019Trial
- The Effectiveness of Individualized Acupuncture Protocols in the Treatment of Gulf War Illness: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial.PloS one · 2016Trial
- Different effects of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation and electroacupuncture at ST36-ST37 on the cerebral cortex.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2015Trial
- Pines and Needles: Experience of an Acupuncture Practice at an Academic Medical Center in Rural New England.Medical acupuncture · 2026Article
- Basic and clinical research on acupuncture for post-stroke depression: A narrative review.World journal of methodology · 2026Review
- Modulation of immune responses by acupuncture at Jing-Well points in neurological disorders: exploring mechanisms and clinical applications in the era of modern electrophysiology.American journal of translational research · 2026Review
- Electroacupuncture Relieves Neuropathic Pain by Suppressing ACC Pyramidal Activity via mGluR5 Inhibition in CCI Mice.Neural plasticity · 2026Article
- Acupuncture accelerates wound healing via CGRP-RAMP1-TSP1-mediated macrophage M2 polarization.Chinese medicine · 2025Article
- Research status and trends of functional magnetic resonance imaging technology in the field of acupuncture: a bibliometric analysis over the past two decades.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Electroacupuncture pretreatment mediates sympathetic nerves to alleviate myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury via CRH neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus.Chinese medicine · 2024Article
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7 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
On November 8-9, 2007, the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) hosted an international conference to mark the tenth anniversary of the landmark NIH [National Institutes of Health] Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture. More than 300 acupuncture researchers, practitioners, students, funding agency personnel, and health policy analysts from 20 countries attended the SAR meeting held at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. This paper summarizes important invited lectures in the area of basic and translational acupuncture research. Specific areas include the scientific assessment of acupuncture points and meridians, the neural mechanisms of cardiovascular regulation by acupuncture, mechanisms for electroacupuncture applied to persistent inflammation and pain, basic and translational research on acupuncture in gynecologic applications, the application of functional neuroimaging to acupuncture research with specific application to carpal-tunnel syndrome and fibromyalgia, and the association of the connective tissue system to acupuncture research. In summary, mechanistic models for acupuncture effects that have been investigated experimentally have focused on the effects of acupuncture needle stimulation on the nervous system, muscles, and connective tissue. These mechanistic models are not mutually exclusive. Iterative testing, expanding, and perhaps merging of such models will potentially lead to an incremental understanding of the effects of manual and electrical stimulation of acupuncture needles that is solidly rooted in physiology.
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