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 3
Comparison of gray value of NET and α2AR in the central nervous system of the rats.
Group
Gray matter region
Lumbar spinal cord
NET
α2AR
NET
α2AR
Control
20
0.24 ± 0.12
0.22 ± 0.09
0.76 ± 0.30
0.49 ± 0.12
Electroacupuncture Sanyinjiao
20
0.47 ± 0.21
0.47 ± 0.21
0.29 ± 0.18
0.13 ± 0.06
Electroacupuncture Hegu
20
0.44 ± 0.26
0.49 ± 0.19
0.45 ± 0.17
0.35 ± 0.14
Electroacupuncture Hegu + Sanyinjiao
20
0.44 ± 0.22
0.43 ± 0.29
0.48 ± 0.26
0.32 ± 0.14
Electroacupuncture Xuehai
20
0.46 ± 0.23
0.48 ± 0.26
0.57 ± 0.21
0.37 ± 0.10
Meperidine
20
0.62 ± 0.28
0.65 ± 0.29
0.20 ± 0.11
0.11 ± 0.05
5.689
6.88
14.171
35.373
Note: comparison of NET and α2AR mRNA expression in central nervous system, 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), , .
