Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius mediate the acupuncture analgesia in visceral pain rats.
- Journal:
- Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical
- Year:
- 2014
- Authors:
- Liu, Kun et al.
- Affiliation:
- Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion · China
- Species:
- rodent
Abstract
The study investigated the role of nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) neurons in electroacupuncture (EA) analgesia in colorectal distension (CRD) rats. NTS neurons responding to both CRD test and EA conditioning stimulations were considered somato-visceral convergent neurons. The neuronal activities evoked by graded CRD showed multiple firing patterns indicating multisynaptic connections. Some of the CRD excitatory neurons were inhibited by EA and vice versa. There was no discrepancy among different acupoints in inducing the changes of unit discharges. Conclusively, EA could regulate CRD related neurons in the NTS through polysynaptic cross-talk mechanism, which mediates EA analgesia on visceral pain in anesthetized rats.
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