ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2015
Effect of Repeated Electroacupuncture Intervention on Hippocampal ERK and p38MAPK Signaling in Neuropathic Pain Rats.
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- Sciatic nerve injury treated by acupuncture: a bibliometric study and visualization analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- The cumulative analgesic effect of repeated electroacupuncture is modulated by Adora3 in the SCDH of mice with neuropathic pain.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2025Article
- Electroacupuncture at GB34 modulates neurogenesis and BDNF-ERK signaling in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2023Article
- Brain nuclei and neural circuits in neuropathic pain and brain modulation mechanisms of acupuncture: a review on animal-based experimental research.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Differential Proteomic Analysis of the Hippocampus in Rats with Neuropathic Pain to Investigate the Use of Electroacupuncture in Relieving Mechanical Allodynia and Cognitive Decline.Neural plasticity · 2021Article
- Inconsistent Time-Dependent Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine on Primary Neurological Disorders and Psychiatric Comorbidities.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
- Sanguinarine Attenuates Neuropathic Pain by Inhibiting P38 MAPK Activated Neuroinflammation in Rat Model.Drug design, development and therapy · 2020Article
- Brain Metabolism in Rats with Neuropathic Pain Induced by Brachial Plexus Avulsion Injury and Treated via Electroacupuncture.Journal of pain research · 2020Article
- The Mechanism of MAPK Signal Transduction Pathway Involved with Electroacupuncture Treatment for Different Diseases.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Review
- Electroacupuncture Alleviated Neuronal Apoptosis Following Ischemic Stroke in Rats via Midkine and ERK/JNK/p38 Signaling Pathway.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2018Article
- Molecular mechanisms of the analgesic action of Wu-tou Decoction on neuropathic pain in mice revealed using microarray and network analysis.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2018Article
- Repeated electroacupuncture treatment attenuated hyperalgesia through suppression of spinal glial activation in chronic neuropathic pain rats.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2018Article
- Exploring the Mechanisms of Electroacupuncture-Induced Analgesia through RNA Sequencing of the Periaqueductal Gray.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Article
- Electroacupuncture in conscious free-moving mice reduces pain by ameliorating peripheral and central nociceptive mechanisms.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Electroacupuncture alleviates cerebral ischemia and reperfusion injury via modulation of the ERK1/2 signaling pathway.Neural regeneration research · 2016Article
- Electroacupuncture Reduces the Effects of Acute Noxious Stimulation on the Electrical Activity of Pain-Related Neurons in the Hippocampus of Control and Neuropathic Pain Rats.Neural plasticity · 2016Article
- The Effect of Repeated Electroacupuncture Analgesia on Neurotrophic and Cytokine Factors in Neuropathic Pain Rats.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016Article
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Abstract
Results of our past studies showed that hippocampal muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR)-1 mRNA and differentially expressed proteins participating in MAPK signaling were involved in electroacupuncture (EA) induced cumulative analgesia in neuropathic pain rats, but the underlying intracellular mechanism remains unknown. The present study was designed to observe the effect of EA stimulation (EAS) on hippocampal extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK) and p38 MAPK signaling in rats with chronic constrictive injury (CCI) of the sciatic nerve, so as to reveal its related intracellular targets in pain relief. After CCI, the thermal pain thresholds of the affected hind were significantly decreased compared with the control group (P < 0.05). Following one and two weeks' EAS of ST 36-GB34, the pain thresholds were significantly upregulated (P < 0.05), and the effect of EA2W was remarkably superior to that of EA2D and EA1W (P < 0.05). Correspondingly, CCI-induced decreased expression levels of Ras, c-Raf, ERK1 and p-ERK1/2 proteins, and p38 MAPK mRNA and p-p38MAPK protein in the hippocampus tissues were reversed by EA2W (P < 0.05). The above mentioned results indicated that EA2W induced cumulative analgesic effect may be closely associated with its function in removing neuropathic pain induced suppression of intracellular ERK and p38MAPK signaling in the hippocampus.
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