New model for acupuncture analgesia

An Australian author has presented a new model for acupuncture anaesthesia. According to his hypothesis, C fibre tactile afferent axons bifurcate at acupuncture points and then diverge, running along acupuncture meridians, to subsequently communicate with Merkel cells. These are sensory cells which are essential for light touch responses. Each Merkel cell is intimately associated with an afferent ...

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