Introduction: The nucleus accumbens is involved in various functions ranging from motivation and reward to feeding and drug addiction. Some researchers have also suggested that this region has some roles in consciousness. In the present study, the effect of electrical stimulation and lesion of nucleus accumbens on Electroencephalogram waves (EEG) of addict and non-addict rats was investigated. ...

Objective- To determine the effect of the transcutaneous electrical neural stimulation on healing of hip joint cartilage defect in rabbit.Design- Experimental in vivo study.Animals- 12 adult New Zealand rabbits were used.Procedures- Under effective the right femoral head was subluxated and the maximum accessible cartilage was denuded up to subchondral bone using dental bit in each rabbit. Then ...

BACKGROUND Electrical stimulation is commonly recommended to treat urinary incontinence in women. It includes several techniques that can be used to improve stress, urge, and mixed symptoms. However, the magnitude of the alleged benefits is not completely established. OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of electrical stimulation in women with symptoms or urodynamic diagnoses of stress, urge, ...

An animal model was established for invivo studies of the EMG responses of a parturient uterine smooth muscle tissue to electrical stimuli. Five normally gravid sheep were fitted with implanted electrodes to register EMG signals and electrical stimulation. EMG signals were detected at the cervix and at the gravid horn. Spontaneous EMG activity was registered simultaneously with EMG responses to...

In this study, rats were put into traumatic brain injury-induced coma and treated with median nerve electrical stimulation. We explored the wake-promoting effect, and possible mechanisms, of median nerve electrical stimulation. Electrical stimulation upregulated the expression levels of orexin-A and its receptor OX1R in the rat prefrontal cortex. Orexin-A expression gradually increased with inc...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that electrical stimulation regulates the levels of gene expression related to apoptosis in denervated muscle and prevents muscle atrophy after denervation.Nineteen rats were used in this study. To denervate soleus muscle, sciatic nerve was resected under aseptic condition. Electrical stimulation with 4 mA rectangular pulses of 0.5 ms ...

Electrical high frequency stimulation is used as treatment for motoricas well as psychomotoric disorders in various regions of the brain. The biochemical mechanisms of the action of high frequency stimulation underlying the effective results are unclear. Previous studies have demonstrated that electrical 130 Hz stimulation was capable of increasing local γaminobutyric acid outflow in the rat ca...