Repeated electroacupuncture treatment attenuated hyperalgesia through suppression of spinal glial activation in chronic neuropathic pain rats
Abstract Background Cumulated evidence reveals that glial cells in the spinal cord play an important role in the development of chronic neuropathic pain and are also complicated in the analgesic effect of EA intervention. But the roles of microgliacytes and astrocytes of spinal cord in the process o...
Main Authors: | Jun-ying Wang, Yong-hui Gao, Li-na Qiao, Jian-liang Zhang, Cheng-Lin Duan-mu, Ya-xia Yan, Shu-ping Chen, Jun-ling Liu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-02-01
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Series: | BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-018-2134-8 |
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