It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong November 10, 2008 |By Peter Libby Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in our May 2002 issue. We are posting it because of news from the […]
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 4 (2007), Issue 1, Pages 51-57 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nel054 Original Article Yun-Kyoung Yim Abstract This study aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic and immuno-regulatory effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) at ST36 on Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in mice. Male DBA/1J mice were divided into five groups: Normal, Control, NR (needle retention), EAI and […]
Gut. 2006 Nov; 55(11): 1640–1649. doi: 10.1136/gut.2006.091322 PMCID: PMC1860105 R H Straub Summary The nervous system in the intestine controls motility, secretion, sensory perception, and immune function. Peptidergic neurones with neurotransmitters such as substance P and nerve growth factors have been the main focus of neuroimmunomodulation research in the gut. This review summarises the present […]
Mediators of Inflammation Volume 12 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 59-69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0962935031000114943 Freek J. Zijlstra Abstract Acupuncture has a beneficial effect when treating many diseases and painful conditions, and therefore is thought to be useful as a complementary therapy or to replace generally accepted pharmacological intervention. The attributive effect of acupuncture has been investigated in inflammatory […]