The effect of acupuncture stimulation on the blood fluidity in rats: study 4

Abstract

It is supposed that the factor affecting blood fluidity may be deformation of red blood cells, agglutination of platelets and leukocyte adhesion. We already demonstrated that some stressors impaired blood fluidity but the effect of acupuncture stimulation (1Hz, 1 hr) increased blood fluidity in rats.In this study, we attempted to investigate the influence of different stimulating frequency (1Hz, 100Hz, 60 min) on blood fluidity in rats using MC-FAN method. All the acupuncture stimulations were applied to ZuSanli (S36), and the stimulating intensity was controlled to cause light muscle twitch. The blood was collected from inferior vena cava under pentobarbital anesthesia.One Hz of Acupuncture stimulation augmented blood fluidity but 100Hz did not. These results indicate that the effect of acupuncture stimulation on blood fluidity is different depending on the frequency of acupuncture stimulation. [J Physiol Sci. 2007;57 Suppl:S216]