This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( Grant No. 39670871 ).
Sensory information arising from somatic and visceral area is thought to be respectively transmitted to the brain by two distinct sensory neuronal systems, the somatic and visceral sensory pathway. A novel and unique ...
Since 1990, a series of studies on rats, monkeys and human foetus showed that an arcshaped zone is present in the middle-caudal segment of medulla oblongata, running from the dorsomedial part to the ventrolateral part...
Somato_visceral interaction or acupoint_visceral interaction is an important subject that greatly concerns scholars of both Chinese traditional and Western modern medicine. The role of our newly discovered spinal proj...
Neuroanatomical studies have shown that there are single and double projection neurons in the spinal cord dorsal horn. The cell origin, axon traveling and properties of these neurons have been investigated morphologic...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. (83) 295
The cholinergic system plays an active role in analgesia. It is considered that effect of the cholinergic agent in analgesia is central. Intraventricular injections of both acetylcholine and physostigmine have analges...
The visceral traction reaction is a trouble problem that has yet to be solved, in surgical operations by acupuncture anaesthesia. However, authors reported that the stomach traction reaction could be inhibited by an a...
Our previous studies have shown that the nucleus raphe magnus and its adjacent ventromedial reticular formation in the medulla oblongata is able to exert a descending inhibitory effect on the transmission of visceral ...