Acupuncture relief of chronic pain syndrome correlates with increased plasma met-enkephalin concentrations.

Autor: Kiser RS, Khatami MJ, Gatchel RJ, Huang XY, Bhatia K, Altshuler KZ
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Lancet (London, England) [Lancet] 1983 Dec 17; Vol. 2 (8364), pp. 1394-6.
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(83)90925-x
Abstrakt: In twenty patients with chronic pain syndrome, acupuncture treatment resulted in significant improvement of both pain and psychiatric symptoms and higher plasma concentrations of metenkephalin. Plasma beta-endorphin concentrations were unchanged. The degree of symptom relief was correlated with the increase in plasma met-enkephalin.
Databáze: MEDLINE