Acupuncture is a traditional therapeutic technique in Oriental medicine,which has a long history of 4000 years. As a modern version of hand acupuncture,electroacupuncture (EA) can provide a valid analgesic effect and ...
subjective: The effect of 4~5 Hz electroacupuncture (EA) on alterations of both met enkephalin (MEK) and dynorphin (Dyn) in the patient plasma or mouse spinal cord and its relation with analgesic effect were studied....
Radioimmunoassay was employed to dctermine the immunorcactivc met-enkephalin(ir-MEK)contents of several brain regions .The pain threshold(PT)andir-MEK content of striatum and hypothalamus increased markedly afterintra...
The relationship between gonadal hormones and Met-enkephalin ( MEK ) in the brain was investigated to explore the role of gonadal hormones in regulating the contents of MEK, Experiments were performed on rats of both ...