Somatosensory Nerve Fibers Mediated Generation of De-qi in Manual Acupuncture and Local Moxibustion-Like Stimuli-Modulated Gastric Motility in Rats

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Gastric motility in response to LMS at ST36 with different intensities in rats. (a) Examples of the alterations of gastric contraction wave induced by different intensities of LMS at ST36. (b, c, and d) The changes of the amplitude, integral, and frequency of gastric motility induced by LMS at ST36 in total 180 s, respectively (𝑛=9; ^∗𝑃<0.05, ^∗∗𝑃<0.01, and ^∗∗∗𝑃<0.001, versus background activities; ^##𝑃<0.01, as compared with the facilitatory effects in the same time course of 43°C LMS at ST36).

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