[Effect of acupuncture on the contents of vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat].
This work was to investigate the change of the contents of vasopressin and oxytocin during acupuncture in rat. Acupuncture could not only cause a change of immunoreactive arginine vasopressin, but also cause a change of immunoreactive oxytocin in many regions of rat brain. These results suggest that arginine vasopressin and oxytocin might be through the central nervous system to participate acupuncture analgesia.
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Nan Fang Hospital, Guangzhou.
D015667:Acupuncture Analgesia; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D015671:Electroacupuncture; D008297:Male; D010121:Oxytocin / Q000378:metabolism*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014667:Vasopressins / Q000378:metabolism*
D014667:Vasopressins; D010121:Oxytocin