Antidepressant-like effects of acupuncture involved the ERK signaling pathway in rats

X Zhang, Y Song, T Bao, M Yu, M Xu, Y Guo… - … and Alternative Medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling pathway is
considered to be associated with the pathogenesis and treatment of depression …

Acupuncture activates ERK‐CREB pathway in rats exposed to chronic unpredictable mild stress

J Lu, J Liang, JR Wang, L Hu, Y Tu… - Evidence‐Based …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular signal‐regulated kinase (ERK)‐cAMP response element binding protein
(CREB) signal pathway has been implicated in the pathogenesis of depression. There is …

The role of MAPK and dopaminergic synapse signaling pathways in antidepressant effect of electroacupuncture pretreatment in chronic restraint stress rats

X Yang, Z Guo, J Lu, B Zhao, Y Fei, J Li… - Evidence‐Based …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Acupuncture has demonstrated the function in ameliorating depressive‐like behaviors via
modulating PKA/CREB signaling pathway. To further confirm the antidepressant mechanism …

Acupuncture ameliorates depression-like behaviors through modulating the neuroinflammation mediated by TLR4 signaling pathway in rats exposed to chronic …

H Jiang, X Long, Y Wang, X Zhang, L Chen… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Recently, emerging evidence has identified that stress-induced activation of
neuroinflammation is considered to be one of the most prevalently precipitating factors in the …

Acupuncture relieves stress-induced depressive behavior by reducing oxidative stress and neuroapoptosis in rats

WJ Cheng, P Li, WY Huang, Y Huang… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Oxidative stress is closely related to the occurrence of depression. Acupuncture has been
proved to be an effective method for treating depression. In order to explore the mechanism …

Effects of acupuncture on chronic stress-induced depression-like behavior and its central neural mechanism

MJ Lee, JS Ryu, SK Won, U Namgung, J Jung… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Depression is a serious psychiatric disorder with an enormous socioeconomic burden, and it
is commonly comorbid with pain, chronic fatigue, or other inflammatory diseases. Recent …

Mechanisms underlying the antidepressant response of acupuncture via PKA/CREB signaling pathway

H Jiang, X Zhang, Y Wang, H Zhang, J Li… - Neural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Protein kinase A (PKA)/cAMP response element‐binding (CREB) protein signaling pathway,
contributing to impaired neurogenesis parallel to depressive‐like behaviors, has been …

[HTML][HTML] Acupuncture exerts preventive effects in rats of chronic unpredictable mild stress: the involvement of inflammation in amygdala and brain-spleen axis

W Chen, Y Chen, W Cheng, P Li, J Shen, T Tong… - Biochemical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Acupuncture has shown the preventive effects on depression in rats with
chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS). However, the mechanisms of acupuncture for …

Effects of electroacupuncture on chronic unpredictable mild stress rats depression‐like behavior and expression of p‐ERK/ERK and p‐P38/P38

J Xu, Y She, N Su, R Zhang, L Lao… - … and Alternative Medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the antidepressant‐like effect and mechanism of electroacupuncture (EA) on
a chronic unpredictable mild stress rats depression‐like behavior. In our study, depression …

Electroacupuncture Reverses CUMS‐Induced Depression‐Like Behaviors and LTP Impairment in Hippocampus by Downregulating NR2B and CaMK II Expression

S Jiang, Z Shen, W Xu - Evidence‐Based Complementary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. Depression is a global mental health problem with high disability rate, which
brings a huge disease burden to the world. Electroacupuncture (EA) has been shown to be …