TY - JOUR AU - Zhu, Yi AU - Wu, Zhiyuan AU - Ma, Xiaopeng AU - Liu, Huirong AU - Bao, Chunhui AU - Yang, Ling AU - Cui, Yunhua AU - Zhou, Cili AU - Wang, Xiaomei AU - Wang, Yuemin AU - Zhang, Zhongwei AU - Zhang, Huan AU - Jia, Haipeng AU - Wu, Huangan PY - 2014 DA - 2014/12/16 TI - Brain regions involved in moxibustion-induced analgesia in irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 500 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Moxibustion is one of the most commonly used therapies in acupuncture practice, and is demonstrated to be beneficial for patients with diarrhea from irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS). But its mechanism remains unclear. Because visceral hypersensitivity in IBS patients has been documented by evaluation of perceived stimulations through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, we focused on observing brain imaging changes in D-IBS patients during rectal balloon distention before and after moxibustion in order to reveal its possible central mechanism and further evaluate its effect. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-500 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-14-500 ID - Zhu2014 ER -