s | 35 Conclusions: Our findings provide valuable information for personalized pain treatment after LAC, in which the C allele of the rs2076222 SNP is associated with lower opioid sensitivity and/ or higher pain sensitivity and requires more opioid analgesic after LAC. PT642 The effects of caffeine on acupuncture analgesia Jeong Won Hwang, Shoji Shinohara, Tadashi Watsuji, Katsuki Watanabe Abst...

Pain is a syndrome characterized by several neurophysiological changes including that of the autonomic nervous system. Chronic low back pain (LBP) is a major health problem and is a frequent reason for using unconventional therapies especially acupuncture. This study was conducted to evaluate the autonomic status and pain profile in chronic LBP patients and to observe the effect of electro acup...

Acupuncture modulation of activity in the human brainstem is not well known. This structure is plagued by physiological artifact in neuroimaging experiments. In addition, most studies have used short (<15 min) block designs, which miss delayed responses following longer duration stimulation. We used brainstem-focused cardiac-gated fMRI and evaluated time-variant brain response to longer duratio...

s | 35 Conclusions: Our findings provide valuable information for personalized pain treatment after LAC, in which the C allele of the rs2076222 SNP is associated with lower opioid sensitivity and/ or higher pain sensitivity and requires more opioid analgesic after LAC. PT642 The effects of caffeine on acupuncture analgesia Jeong Won Hwang, Shoji Shinohara, Tadashi Watsuji, Katsuki Watanabe Abst...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the effect of electroacupuncture at Zusanli (ST36) and Sanyinjiao (SP6) on adrenocortical function in patients with etomidate anesthesia. MATERIAL AND METHODS We randomly divided 80 patients who underwent elective surgery into 4 groups: group etomidate (ETO), group etomidate + electroacupuncture (ETO+EA), group etomidate + sham acupuncture (ETO+SEA), and gro...

OBJECTIVE To study the humoral factor of acupuncture in improving functional activities of the organism. METHODS Neurons of the cerebral cortex from the new born rats were taken to be cultured in a strictly controlled medium. Seven to ten days later, fluorescein-molecular probe Fluo-3AM was used for staining intracellular Ca(2+). Ca(2+) concentration and its changes after application of acupu...

Electro acupuncture has been widely used to treat demyelinating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (AHLE), compressed spinal cord injury (CSCI). However, the protective effect of electro acupuncture (EA) on neural myelin sheaths remains controversy attributed to the dimness of its therapeutic mechanism. In this study, we tried to explore the protecti...

OBJECTIVE To acquire the optimal intervention methods of acupuncture on primary depressive disorder (PDD) through high quality clinical evidences of acupuncture for PDD and analytic hierarchy process. METHODS Databases of domestic and international medical literatures were retrieved with computer. And high-quality clinical evidences on treatment of PDD with acupuncture were collected. Jadad s...