ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2022
Acupuncture Regulates Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Efficacy of various acupuncture modalities on alleviating symptoms in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Pooled it
- Integrating machine learning into acupuncture research: a scoping review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Qualitative and quantitative meta-analysis of acupuncture effects on the motor function of Parkinson's disease patients.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Spike RBD drives sustained Parkinson's disease progression via microglia-neuron crosstalk-mediated RTP801 upregulation.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Changes in Gut Microbiome Following Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Patients With Parkinson Disease: Protocol for a Single-Group, Prospective, Observational Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Invasive laser acupuncture targeting muscle: a novel approach to protect dopaminergic neurons and reduce neuroinflammation in a brain of Parkinson's disease model.Chinese medicine · 2025Article
- Ginsenoside Rg1 ameliorates stress-exacerbated Parkinson's disease in mice by eliminating RTP801 and α-synuclein autophagic degradation obstacle.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2025Article
- Neuroprotective Mechanisms and Clinical Evidence for Acupuncture in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.Parkinson's disease · 2025Review
- Acupuncture Effect on Reaction-Time Changes in Parkinson's Disease Patients-Case Study Series.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Peripheral mast cells derive the effects of acupuncture in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Global trends and hotspots in research on acupuncture for neurodegenerative diseases over the last decade: a bibliometric and visualization analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- Potential role of acupuncture in the treatment of Parkinson's disease: A narrative review.Integrative medicine research · 2023Review
- Pathophysiology and Neuroimmune Interactions Underlying Parkinson's Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Acupuncture therapy for Parkinson's disease: a case report demonstrating symptomatic improvement without medication.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Parkinson's disease constipation effect of electroacupuncture at ST25 through colonic motility and enteric neuropathology.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multilayered progressive brain disease characterized by motor dysfunction and a variety of other symptoms. Although acupuncture has been used to ameliorate various symptoms of neurodegenerative disorders, including PD, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Here, we investigated the mechanism of acupuncture by revealing the effects of acupuncture treatment on brain neural responses and its functional connectivity in an animal model of PD. We observed that destruction of neuronal network between many brain regions in PD mice were reversed by acupuncture. Using machine learning analysis, we found that the key region associated with the improvement of abnormal behaviors might be related to the neural activity of M1, suggesting that the changes of c-Fos in M1 could predict the improvement of motor function induced by acupuncture treatment. In addition, acupuncture treatment was shown to significantly normalize the brain neural activity not only in M1 but also in other brain regions related to motor behavior (striatum, substantia nigra pars compacta, and globus pallidus) and non-motor symptoms (hippocampus, lateral hypothalamus, and solitary tract) of PD. Taken together, our results demonstrate that acupuncture treatment might improve the PD symptoms by normalizing the brain functional connectivity in PD mice model and provide new insights that enhance our current understanding of acupuncture mechanisms for non-motor symptoms.
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