In heroin relapse, acupuncture normalizes brain structure and damaged neurons

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Heroin abuse can damage many brain areas, including the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus of the midbrain, the ventral tegmental area, and nucleus accumbens.

These results, published in Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 3, 2014), suggested that acupuncture at Baihui and Dazhui protected brain neurons against injury in rats with heroin relapse by promoting brain-derived neurotrophic factor and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor expression.