ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020
Electro-Acupuncture Attenuates Chronic Stress Responses
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Brain Activities Responding to Acupuncture at ST36 (Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Electroacupuncture alleviates depression and gastrointestinal dysfunction by rebalancing GABAergic activity in the central amygdala.World journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Muscarinic Receptor-Mediated Electroacupuncture Modulation of Reactive Enteric Glial Cells Ameliorates Postoperative Ileus.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Altered brain activity associated with premature ejaculation improved by electroacupuncture in rats.Sexual medicine · 2024Article
- Advances in Understanding Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression and the Mechanisms of Acupuncture Intervention.International journal of general medicine · 2024Review
- Effects of acupuncture on gastrointestinal diseases and its underlying mechanism: a literature review of animal studies.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- The neuropeptide Y single-nucleotide polymorphismFrontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Electroacupuncture Treats Myocardial Infarction by Influencing the Regulation of Substance P in the Neurovascular to Modulate PGI2/TXA2 Metabolic Homeostasis via PI3K/AKT Pathway: A Bioinformatics-Based Multiomics and Experimental Study.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Stress can increase the release of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the hypothalamus, resulting in attenuation of gastric motor functions. In contrast, central neuropeptide Y (NPY) can reduce the biological actions of CRF, and in turn weaken stress responses. Although electroacupuncture (EA) at stomach 36 (ST-36) has been shown to have anti-stress effects, its mechanism has not yet been investigated. The effect of EA at ST-36 on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and gastrointestinal motility in chronic complicated stress (CCS) conditions have not been studied and the inhibitory mechanism of NPY on CRF through the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
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