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Transcutaneous Magnetic Stimulation Modulates Heart Responses Through Spinal Opioid Peptides

Animal StudyPreliminary evidence
The takeaway

Transcutaneous magnetic stimulation modulated cardiovascular excitatory responses in rats through spinal cord opioid peptide mechanisms, potentially applicable to non-invasive treatment of cardiovascular autonomic disorders.

Key finding

Transcutaneous magnetic stimulation modulated cardiovascular excitatory responses through spinal cord mechanisms involving opioid peptide and nocicept

What the researchers found

Transcutaneous magnetic stimulation modulated cardiovascular excitatory responses through spinal cord mechanisms involving opioid peptide and nociceptin pathways — establishing a non-invasive approach to modulating cardiovascular autonomic reflexes.

Why it matters

Relevant for neuropeptides, cardiovascular.

How the study worked

animal-study study on neuropeptides, cardiovascular.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

preliminary evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2006.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.
  • Clinical translation to evaluate.

Common questions

What was studied?
Transcutaneous Magnetic Stimulation Modulates Heart Responses Through Spinal Opioid Peptides
What was found?
Transcutaneous magnetic stimulation modulated cardiovascular excitatory responses in rats through spinal cord opioid peptide mechanisms, potentially applicable to non-invasive treatment of cardiovascular autonomic disorders.

Read the original research

Modulation of cardiovascular excitatory responses in rats by transcutaneous magnetic stimulation: role of the spinal cord.

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 100(3), 926-32

Citation

Zhou Yi Syuu, Wei; Hsiao, Ian; Lin, Vernon W H; Longhurst, John C. (2006). Modulation of cardiovascular excitatory responses in rats by transcutaneous magnetic stimulation: role of the spinal cord.. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 100(3), 926-32.