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| Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Online) |
| 2011; 1: 31-36 |
| Acetylcholine does not participate in the increase in local muscle blood flow following manual acupuncture in rats |
| SHINBARA Hisashi1),OKUBO Masamichi2), KIMURA Keisaku3), MIZUNUMA Kunio4), SUMIYA Eiji5) |
| 1) Department of Basic Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine 2) Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hyogo College of Medicine 3) Department of Health Promoting and Preventive Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine 4) Department of Traditional Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine |
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| Figure 2. Muscle blood flow in the saline-pretreated and atropine-pretreated rats with or without manual acupuncture |
| Manual acupuncture (MA) significantly increased muscle blood flow (MBF) of the tibial anterior (TA) and the extensor digitorum longus (EDL), which were penetrated by acupuncture needle. Atropine did not influence any increase in MBF at any concentration. Refer to Table 1 about the experimental condition of each group. Data were expressed as mean ｱ・standard error. ***p <0.001, **p <0.01, and *p <0.05. |