I was much impressed by the description of stress coping styles on the level of PAG of prof. Bandler and prof.Keay. My personal interest would be the answer to the question if acupunctural needling could influence the central pattern generators in the brainstem directly through spinoreticulothalamic (unilateral neo-STT, bilateral paleo-STT) in a short loop or would have to influence higher centres first in their descending regulation (long loop).
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Cardiovascular responses are included right away. Other laboratories did confirm. Thee is evidence for the long loop via arcuate nucleus.
-> Midbrain vlPAG inhibits rVLM cardiovascular sympathoexcitatory responses during electroacupuncture. Tjen-A-Looi SC, Li P, Longhurst JC. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2006 Jun;290(6):H2543-53. Epub 2006 Jan 20.
-> J Appl Physiol (1985). 2009 Feb;106(2):620-30. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.91277.2008. Epub 2008 Dec 12.Long-loop pathways in cardiovascular electroacupuncture responses. Li P1, Tjen-A-Looi SC, Guo ZL, Fu LW, Longhurst JC.
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