Long-term acupuncture treatment has a multi-targeting regulation on multiple brain regions in rats with Alzheimer's disease: a positron emission tomography study.

Abstract:

:The acute effect of acupuncture on Alzheimer's disease, i.e., on brain activation during treatment, has been reported. However, the effect of long-term acupuncture on brain activation in Alzheimer's disease is unclear. Therefore, in this study, we performed long-term needling at Zusanli (ST36) or a sham point (1.5 mm lateral to ST36) in a rat Alzheimer's disease model, for 30 minutes, once per day, for 30 days. The rats underwent 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning. Positron emission tomography images were processed with SPM2. The brain areas activated after needling at ST36 included the left hippocampus, the left orbital cortex, the left infralimbic cortex, the left olfactory cortex, the left cerebellum and the left pons. In the sham-point group, the activated regions were similar to those in the ST36 group. However, the ST36 group showed greater activation in the cerebellum and pons than the sham-point group. These findings suggest that long-term acupuncture treatment has targeted regulatory effects on multiple brain regions in rats with Alzheimer's disease.

journal_name

Neural Regen Res

authors

Lu YJ,Cai XW,Zhang GF,Huang Y,Tang CZ,Shan BC,Cui SY,Chen JQ,Qu SS,Zhong Z,Lai XS,Steiner GZ

doi

10.4103/1673-5374.211197

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-07-01 00:00:00

pages

1159-1165

issue

7

eissn

1673-5374

issn

1876-7958

pii

NRR-12-1159

journal_volume

12

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