Pinching spine: A potential treatment for depression / 中国结合医学杂志
Chinese journal of integrative medicine
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(12): 272-279, 2014.
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em Inglês
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate whether pinching spine (PS, i.e. , a traditional Chinese manipulative therapy) is beneficial to ameliorating the depressive state (including behavioral deficit, retardative weight gain and decreased sucrose consumption) in a rat model of depression induced by chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) and to explore the candidate mechanism of action.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>PS was performed on rats' spine once daily for 1 week after exposure to CUS. The open-field test, body weight measuring, and sucrose intake test were applied on different dates before stress (d0), at the end of stress (d21) and after PS treatment (d28), respectively. Then the rats' hippocampuses were performed genome-wide microarray analysis, and the expression levels of several genes were evaluated by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR).</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Exposure to CUS resulted in decreases of behavioral activity and sucrose consumption, which were reversed significantly after PS treatment. The expression of several genes relevant to energy metabolism, anti-oxidation, and olfactory receptor, etc., were down-regulated, while the expression of those relevant to hemostasis, immunity-inflammation, and restriction of activities and ingestion, etc., were up-regulated in hippocampuses of rats exposed to CUS. PS treatment significantly inverted these changes. Furthermore, increase or decrease in gene expression evaluated by realtime PCR was concordant with up-regulated or down-regulated expression evaluated by microarray analysis.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>PS showed a potential antidepressant-like effect, of which the action mechanism might be due to gene expression regulation in hippocampus.</p>
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Assunto principal:
Coluna Vertebral
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Terapêutica
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Ratos Sprague-Dawley
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Manipulações Musculoesqueléticas
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Depressão
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Medicina Tradicional Chinesa
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
Limite:
Animais
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Chinese journal of integrative medicine
Ano de publicação:
2014
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