Zhengyang Qu, Lu Liu, Yi Yang, Luopeng Zhao, Xiaobai Xu, Zhijuan Li, Yupu Zhu, Xianghong Jing, Xiaoyu Wang, Claire Suiqing Zhang, Marc Fisher, Bin Li, Linpeng Wang
INTRODUCTION: Acupuncture has become a relevant complementary and alternative treatment for acute migraine; however, the neurophysiological mechanism (C-fibers) underlying this effect remains unclear. C-fibers play a crucial role for diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC) at wide dynamic range (WDR) neurons in the trigeminocervical complex (TCC) in migraine attacks, and we supposed that this may be the mechanism of acupuncture analgesia. This study aimed to examine the neurophysiology of acupuncture intervention in an acute migraine rat model...
January 14, 2020: Brain Research