The effects of acupuncture and electroacupuncture on Parkinson's disease: Current status and future perspectives for molecular mechanisms

Acupuncture inhibition of methamphetamine-induced behaviors, dopamine release and hyperthermia in the nucleus accumbens: mediation of group II mGluR

(2018) Nam Jun Kim et al.   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Increased serum levels of TNF-α and decreased serum levels of IL-27 in patients with Parkinson disease and their correlation with disease severity

(2018) Ebrahim Kouchaki et al.   CLINICAL NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY

Electroacupuncture Ameliorates Cognitive Impairment and Spontaneous Low-Frequency Brain Activity in Rats with Ischemic Stroke

(2018) Tao Wen et al.   Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

Acupuncture suppresses intravenous methamphetamine self-administration through GABA receptor’s mediation

(2018) Yi Jeong Choi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Impact of acupuncture treatment on the lumbar surgery rate for low back pain in Korea: A nationwide matched retrospective cohort study

(2018) Wonil Koh et al.   PLoS One

Treadmill training in Parkinson’s patients after deep brain stimulation: Effects on gait kinematic

(2018) N.M.S. Luna et al.   NEUROREHABILITATION

Effect of virtual reality training on walking distance and physical fitness in individuals with Parkinson’s disease

(2018) Gileno Edu Lameira de Melo et al.   NEUROREHABILITATION

Electroacupuncture Alleviates Motor Symptoms and Up-Regulates Vesicular Glutamatergic Transporter 1 Expression in the Subthalamic Nucleus in a Unilateral 6-Hydroxydopamine-Lesioned Hemi-Parkinsonian Rat Model

(2018) Yanyan Wang et al.   Neuroscience Bulletin

Electroacupuncture Ameliorates Cognitive Impairment and Spontaneous Low-Frequency Brain Activity in Rats with Ischemic Stroke

(2018) Tao Wen et al.   Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

Effectiveness and feasibility of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: a pilot randomized controlled trial

(2018) Lu-Lu Lin et al.   CLINICAL REHABILITATION

Research on Roles of Mongolian Medical Warm Acupuncture in Inhibiting p38 MAPK Activation and Apoptosis of Nucleus Pulposus Cells

(2018) Sha Li et al.   Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Correlation of serum levels and gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein-8 like-2 with Parkinson disease severity

(2018) Ebrahim Kouchaki et al.   METABOLIC BRAIN DISEASE

Baihui (DU20)-penetrating-Qubin (GB7) acupuncture inhibits apoptosis in the perihemorrhagic penumbra

(2018) Wei Zou et al.   Neural Regeneration Research

Electroacupuncture ameliorates cognitive impairment through inhibition of Ca2+-mediated neurotoxicity in a rat model of cerebral ischaemia–reperfusion injury

(2018) Yun Zhang et al.   Acupuncture in Medicine

Probiotic and selenium co-supplementation, and the effects on clinical, metabolic and genetic status in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial

(2018) Omid Reza Tamtaji et al.   CLINICAL NUTRITION

Melatonin, a toll-like receptor inhibitor: Current status and future perspectives

(2018) Omid Reza Tamtaji et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Acupuncture treatment for knee osteoarthritis with sensitive points: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial

(2018) Li Tang et al.   BMJ Open

Electroacupuncture Promotes Recovery of Motor Function and Reduces Dopaminergic Neuron Degeneration in Rodent Models of Parkinson’s Disease

(2017) Jaung-Geng Lin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Laser acupuncture-induced analgesic effect and molecular alterations in an incision pain model: a comparison with electroacupuncture-induced effects

(2017) Yen-Jing Zeng et al.   LASERS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

Therapeutic potential of autophagy-enhancing agents in Parkinson’s disease

(2017) Tim E. Moors et al.   Molecular Neurodegeneration

The effects of yoga versus stretching and resistance training exercises on psychological distress for people with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

(2017) JoJo Yan Yan Kwok et al.   Trials

BCL-2 family proteins as regulators of mitochondria metabolism

(2016) Atan Gross   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The Role of Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Striatum in Electroacupuncture Treatment of Parkinsonian Rats

(2016) Yan-Jun Jia et al.   CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics

Therapeutic antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of laser acupuncture on patients with rheumatoid arthritis

(2016) Atef M. M. Attia et al.   LASERS IN SURGERY AND MEDICINE

Randomized, Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Fatigue in Parkinson's Disease

(2016) Benzi M. Kluger et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Acupuncture reversed hippocampal mitochondrial dysfunction in vascular dementia rats

(2016) Hui Li et al.   NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Electroacupuncture Produces the Sustained Motor Improvement in 6-Hydroxydopamine-Lesioned Mice

(2016) Yan Yu et al.   PLoS One

Electroacupuncture restores spatial learning and downregulates phosphorylated N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

(2016) Kung-Wen Lu et al.   Acupuncture in Medicine

Acupuncture promotes mTOR-independent autophagic clearance of aggregation-prone proteins in mouse brain

(2016) Tian Tian et al.   Scientific Reports

A Pilot Clinical Trial to Objectively Assess the Efficacy of Electroacupuncture on Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease Using Body Worn Sensors

(2016) Hong Lei et al.   PLoS One

Acupuncture ameliorates cognitive impairment and hippocampus neuronal loss in experimental vascular dementia through Nrf2-mediated antioxidant response

(2015) Xue-Rui Wang et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

A Prospective Open-Label Study of Combined Treatment for Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Using Acupuncture and Bee Venom Acupuncture as an Adjunctive Treatment

(2015) Kyeong-Hee Doo et al.   JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

Targeting the extrinsic apoptotic pathway in cancer: lessons learned and future directions

(2015) Avi Ashkenazi   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Acupuncture reduced apoptosis and up-regulated BDNF and GDNF expression in hippocampus following hypoxia–ischemia in neonatal rats

(2015) Yong Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Parkinson's disease

(2015) Lorraine V Kalia et al.   LANCET

The Effectiveness and Safety of Acupuncture for Patients With Alzheimer Disease

(2015) Jing Zhou et al.   MEDICINE

Diffusion tensor imaging of the nigrostriatal fibers in Parkinson's disease

(2015) Yu Zhang et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

New treatments for levodopa-induced motor complications

(2015) Olivier Rascol et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Cognitive performance and neuropsychiatric symptoms in early, untreated Parkinson's disease

(2015) Daniel Weintraub et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Progressive nigrostriatal terminal dysfunction and degeneration in the engrailed1 heterozygous mouse model of Parkinson's disease

(2015) Ulrika Nordström et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Neuroprotective effects of bee venom acupuncture therapy against rotenone-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis

(2015) Wagdy K.B. Khalil et al.   NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Acupuncture for sleep quality, BDNF levels and immunosenescence: A randomized controlled study

(2015) Carina Zuppa et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Acupuncture and Multiple Sclerosis: A Review of the Evidence

(2014) H. I. Karpatkin et al.   Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

(2014) Trevor W. Robbins et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Clinical spectrum of levodopa-induced complications

(2014) Camila Catherine Aquino et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

The prevalence of Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

(2014) Tamara Pringsheim et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Effect of Acupuncture Given at the HT 7, ST 36, ST 40 and KI3 Acupoints on Various Parts of the Brains of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

(2013) Youlong Zhou et al.   ACUPUNCTURE & ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS RESEARCH

Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in Parkinson disease

(2013) Masahiko Suzuki et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Regulation of autophagy by mTOR-dependent and mTOR-independent pathways: autophagy dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases and therapeutic application of autophagy enhancers

(2013) Sovan Sarkar   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Electro-Acupuncture Stimulation Improves Spontaneous Locomotor Hyperactivity in MPTP Intoxicated Mice

(2013) Haomin Wang et al.   PLoS One

Malate dehydrogenase 2 confers docetaxel resistance via regulations of JNK signaling and oxidative metabolism

(2013) Qiong Liu et al.   PROSTATE

An exploratory review of the electroacupuncture literature: clinical applications and endorphin mechanisms

(2013) David Mayor   Acupuncture in Medicine

Electroacupuncture Improves Survival in Rats with Lethal Endotoxemia via the Autonomic Nervous System

(2012) Jian-gang Song et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Treatment of motor and non-motor features of Parkinson's disease with deep brain stimulation

(2012) Alfonso Fasano et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Amantadine and the place of acupuncture in the treatment of fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis: an observational study

(2012) Mohsen Foroughipour et al.   Acupuncture in Medicine

Development of a Unilaterally-lesioned 6-OHDA Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease

(2012) Sherri L. Thiele et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Impact of omega-3 fatty acids in Parkinson's disease

(2011) Mélanie Bousquet et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Role of autophagy in chemoresistance: Regulation of the ATM-mediated DNA-damage signaling pathway through activation of DNA–PKcs and PARP-1

(2011) Jung-Hoon Yoon et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Rotenone, Paraquat, and Parkinson’s Disease

(2011) Caroline M. Tanner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Cellular Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins cIAP1 and cIAP2 Are Required for Efficient Caspase-1 Activation by the Inflammasome

(2011) Katherine Labbé et al.   IMMUNITY

Up-regulation of the mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase by oxidative stress is mediated by miR-743a

(2011) Qingli Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Imputation of sequence variants for identification of genetic risks for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

(2011)   LANCET

Parkinson's disease: The quintessential neuropsychiatric disorder

(2011) Daniel Weintraub et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

How might physical activity benefit patients with Parkinson disease?

(2011) Arlène D. Speelman et al.   Nature Reviews Neurology

The Antioxidative Effect of Electro-Acupuncture in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease

(2011) Haomin Wang et al.   PLoS One

Acupuncture Enhances the Synaptic Dopamine Availability to Improve Motor Function in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease

(2011) Seung-Nam Kim et al.   PLoS One

Distinct roles for the cellular inhibitors of apoptosis proteins 1 and 2

(2011) T E Graber et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson Disease

(2010) Jeff M. Bronstein et al.   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

Electro-acupuncture stimulation acts on the basal ganglia output pathway to ameliorate motor impairment in Parkinsonian model rats.

(2010) Jun Jia et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Pathological roles of MAPK signaling pathways in human diseases

(2010) Eun Kyung Kim et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Structure of the Fas/FADD complex: A conditional death domain complex mediating signaling by receptor clustering

(2010) Guy S. Salvesen et al.   CELL CYCLE

Genetic etiology of Parkinson disease associated with mutations in the SNCA, PARK2, PINK1, PARK7, and LRRK2 genes: a mutation update

(2010) Karen Nuytemans et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Transgenic conversion of omega-6 into omega-3 fatty acids in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

(2010) Melanie Bousquet et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

The emerging mechanisms of isoform-specific PI3K signalling

(2010) Bart Vanhaesebroeck et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: A multicenter pooled analysis

(2010) D. Aarsland et al.   NEUROLOGY

Regulation of Bax by c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase and Bcl-xL in vinblastine-induced apoptosis

(2009) Rong Chu et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Acupuncture in Migraine Prevention

(2009) Jerusa Alecrim-Andrade et al.   CLINICAL JOURNAL OF PAIN

Oxidative Stress and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Review of Upstream and Downstream Antioxidant Therapeutic Options

(2009) Bayani Uttara et al.   Current Neuropharmacology

Acupuncture for Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review

(2009) M. S. Lee et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PRACTICE

Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 4 selectively modulates both glutamate and GABA transmission in the striatum: implications for Parkinson’s disease treatment

(2009) Dario Cuomo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

The effect of electroaucpuncture for 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-induced proteomic changes in the mouse striatum

(2009) Seung-Tae Kim et al.   Journal of Physiological Sciences

α-Synuclein and neuronal cell death

(2009) Mark R Cookson   Molecular Neurodegeneration

Neuroprotective effects of bee venom pharmaceutical acupuncture in acute 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-induced mouse model of Parkinson's disease

(2009) Ah-Reum Doo et al.   NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH

Ashwagandha leaf extract: A potential agent in treating oxidative damage and physiological abnormalities seen in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

(2009) Srinivasagam RajaSankar et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

The Effect of Exercise Training in Improving Motor Performance and Corticomotor Excitability in People With Early Parkinson's Disease

(2008) Beth E. Fisher et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Diet, Autophagy, and Cancer: A Review

(2008) K. Singletary et al.   CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

TNF-α Induces Two Distinct Caspase-8 Activation Pathways

(2008) Lai Wang et al.   CELL

Therapeutic Strategies for Parkinson’s Disease: The Ancient Meets the Future—Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, Electroacupuncture, Gene Therapy and Stem Cells

(2008) Xuan Wang et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

Involvement of oxidative stress-activated JNK signaling in the methamphetamine-induced cell death of human SH-SY5Y cells

(2008) Sheng-Fan Wang et al.   TOXICOLOGY

Caffeine activates the PI3K/Akt pathway and prevents apoptotic cell death in a Parkinson's disease model of SH-SY5Y cells

(2007) Kazuhiro Nakaso et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS