Effects of Electroacupuncture on Pain Threshold of Laboring Rats and the Expression of Norepinephrine Transporter and α2 Adrenergic Receptor in the Central Nervous System
Table 4
Comparison of NET and α2AR mRNA expression in central nervous system.
Group
Gray matter region
Lumbar spinal cord
NET
α2AR
NET
α2AR
Control
20
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
1.0000
Electroacupuncture Sanyinjiao
20
1.3535 ± 0.3008
1.3465 ± 0.3124
0.3931 ± 1.7217
0.3689 ± 0.1891
Electroacupuncture Hegu
20
1.3961 ± 0.2977
1.3068 ± 0.3293
0.5793 ± 0.3482
0.5862 ± 0.3410
Electroacupuncture Hegu+ Sanyinjiao
20
1.3823 ± 0.3527
1.3381 ± 0.3963
0.7393 ± 0.3158
0.8124 ± 0.3414
Electroacupuncture Xuehai
20
1.3883 ± 0.3400
1.3063 ± 0.2767
0.7358 ± 0.2178
0.7460 ± 0.2394
Meperidine
20
1.6084 ± 0.4064
1.5475 ± 0.3585
03446 ± 0.1606
0.3515 ± 0.203
7.868
6.517
22.243
21.576
Note: comparison of NET and α2AR mRNA expression in cerebral cortex and spinal cord, significant difference . With control group , ; with Sanyinjiao (SP 6) group, , ; with Hegu (LI 4) group, , ; with Hegu (LI 4) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6) group, , ; with Xuehai (SP 10), , .
