Technical Name | Can acupuncture induce analgesiahow does it work? | ||
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Project Operator | National Taiwan University, College of Medicine | ||
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Summary | Using animal models, we found electroacupuncture in mice induced an analgesic effect mediated by an opioid-independent novel mechanism. This finding provides scientific evidence supporting that acupuncture analgesia is not a placebo effect. Besides, we also found that electroacupuncture analgesiaa clinical neuromodulation procedure share the same modulatory effect in the brain. Our finding al |
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