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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 857123, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/857123
Research Article

Stimulation of TRPV1 by Green Laser Light

Quanbao Gu,1 Lina Wang,1,2 Fang Huang,3 and Wolfgang Schwarz1,4

1Shanghai Research Center for Acupuncture and Meridians, 199 Guoshoujing Road, Shanghai 201203, China
2Acupuncture and Moxibution College, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China
3State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200031, China
4Institute for Biophysics, J. W. Goethe University, Max-von-Laue Straβe 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Received 20 September 2012; Revised 6 November 2012; Accepted 14 November 2012

Academic Editor: Di Zhang

Copyright © 2012 Quanbao Gu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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