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Anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture.

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 diseases...

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Autores principales: Zijlstra, Freek J, van den Berg-de Lange, Ineke, Huygen, Frank J P M, Klein, Jan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12775355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0962935031000114943
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author Zijlstra, Freek J
van den Berg-de Lange, Ineke
Huygen, Frank J P M
Klein, Jan
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description 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 diseases, including asthma, rhinitis, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, epicondylitis, complex regional pain syndrome type 1 and vasculitis. Large randomised trials demonstrating the immediate and sustained effect of acupuncture are missing. Mechanisms underlying the ascribed immunosuppressive actions of acupuncture are reviewed in this communication. The acupuncture-controlled release of neuropeptides from nerve endings and subsequent vasodilative and anti-inflammatory effects through calcitonine gene-related peptide is hypothesised. The complex interactions with substance P, the analgesic contribution of beta-endorphin and the balance between cell-specific pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-10 are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-17815962007-01-25 Anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture. Zijlstra, Freek J van den Berg-de Lange, Ineke Huygen, Frank J P M Klein, Jan Mediators Inflamm Research Article 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 diseases, including asthma, rhinitis, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, epicondylitis, complex regional pain syndrome type 1 and vasculitis. Large randomised trials demonstrating the immediate and sustained effect of acupuncture are missing. Mechanisms underlying the ascribed immunosuppressive actions of acupuncture are reviewed in this communication. The acupuncture-controlled release of neuropeptides from nerve endings and subsequent vasodilative and anti-inflammatory effects through calcitonine gene-related peptide is hypothesised. The complex interactions with substance P, the analgesic contribution of beta-endorphin and the balance between cell-specific pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-10 are discussed. 2003-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1781596/ /pubmed/12775355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0962935031000114943 Text en
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Zijlstra, Freek J
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Huygen, Frank J P M
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Anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture.
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title_full_unstemmed Anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture.
title_short Anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12775355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0962935031000114943
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