Acupuncture at GV01 Relieves Somatic Pain Referred by Colitis in Rats

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Hi All,

 

Congratulations to Dr. KIM Hee-Young & his team on the publication of their

paper. See:

 

Hee-Young KIM1,2, Dae-Hyun HAHM2, Younbyoung CHAE2, Kwang-Ho

PYUN3, Hyejung LEE2, and Insop SHIM3 Acupuncture at GV01 Relieves

Somatic Pain Referred by Colitis in Rats. Journal of Physiological Sciences

Advance Publication by J-STAGE doi:10.2170/physiolsci.SC001607

1Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical

Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1069, USA; 2Department of Oriental Medical

Science, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee

University, Gyeonggi-do 449-701, Korea; and 3Department of Integrative

Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 137-

701, Korea This version is to be replaced by the final version after page-

setting and proofing. Correspondence should be addressed to: Insop Shim,

Department of Integrative Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic

University of Korea, Seoul 137-701, Korea. Tel: +82-2-590-2971, Fax: +82-

2-592-6359, E-mail: ishim ABSTRACT: The present study

aimed to expand our previous findings regarding the therapeutic effects and

underlying mechanisms of acupuncture at GV01 in colitis. Our results

showed that acupuncture at GV01 has antinociceptive effects on referred

somatic pain induced by experimental colitis, and that endogenous opioid

pathways may mediate the acupuncture effects. [The Journal of

Physiological Sciences 57(4), 2007, in press]

 

The full text is online at:

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/physiolsci/advpub/0/0708010005/_pdf

 

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