I am linking to this as background for a writing project. Il-6 is mentioned quite a bit as part of the acupuncture cascade, so I want to learn more. I’m also trying to get up to date on Immunology, which
Though this journal article isn’t directly related to acupuncture per se, the neurendocrine-immune-mitochondrial pathway is quite similar. The depression model in rats is pretty awful. Making them swim. yeeks. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2020 Mar 31;16:859-869. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S243551. eCollection 2020. Gut
Ok. A whole new area of brain chemistry I wasn’t aware of. I’m not even sure where Neurotrophins are found. Will report once I know. I’m tempted to buy this article, but don’t want to get carried away. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763419310516 Review
Notice that deaths do not look to be decreasing as fast. From what I understand, they lag cases, so we may still have cause for some optimism. This graph shows the Bay Area in relation to the rest of
Cell. 2017 Jun 29;170(1):185-198.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.034. Epub 2017 Jun 22. full article here Enterochromaffin Cells Are Gut Chemosensors that Couple to Sensory Neural Pathways. Bellono NW1, Bayrer JR2, Leitch DB1, Castro J3, Zhang C1, O’Donnell TA3, Brierley SM3, Ingraham HA4,
Nat Neurosci. 2012 Jul 26;15(8):1063-7. doi: 10.1038/nn.3144. full article here Neurogenic inflammation and the peripheral nervous system in host defense and immunopathology. Chiu IM1, von Hehn CA, Woolf CJ. Author information 1 FM Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston,
Filing here for research work I’m doing. Great original paper on the neuro-inflammatory response Nature. 2000 May 25;405(6785):458-62. Vagus nerve stimulation attenuates the systemic inflammatory response to endotoxin. Borovikova LV1, Ivanova S, Zhang M, Yang H, Botchkina GI, Watkins LR,
Pulse of Inflammation. Heart Rate Variability, the cholinergic pathway, and Implications for therapy This paper is not new, but I was unaware of it before. Tracey outlines some of the correlations between HRV and cytokine levels. He makes the case
Tracey has looked at HRV in conjunction with diseases of increased cytokines such as rhuematoid arthritis. Too bad he didn’t look at it in this study. Bioelectron Med. 2019; 5: 4. Published online 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1186/s42234-019-0020-4 PMCID: PMC7098240 Investigational
