A study of a randomised controlled trial on pregnancy rates after embryo transfer with and without acupuncture during assisted reproduction therapy.

Clinical and experimental data on the effect of acupuncture on uterineand ovarian blood flow, as an analgesic method during ART, and on endocrine and metabolic disturbances suchas polycystic ovary syndrome.

Objective is to perform a meta-analysis of trials of acupuncture for the treatment of back pain.

Acupuncture is an invasive procedure commonly used to relieve pain. Acupuncture is practiced worldwide, despite difficulties in reconciling its principles with evidence-based medicine. We found that adenosine, a neuromodulator with anti-nociceptive properties, was released during acupuncture in mice and that its anti-nociceptive actions required adenosine A1 receptor expression. Direct injection of an adenosine A1 receptor agonist replicated the analgesic effect of acupuncture. Inhibition of enzymes involved in adenosine degradation potentiated the acupuncture-elicited increase in adenosine, as well as its antinociceptive effect. These observations indicate that adenosine mediates the effects of acupuncture and that interfering with adenosine metabolism may prolong the clinical benefit of acupuncture.

Objective is to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patients with migraine.