Acupuncture Attenuates Anxiety-Like Behavior by Normalizing Amygdaloid Catecholamines during Ethanol Withdrawal in Rats

<table>EPM performance. S, saline; ETH, ethanol; HT7, acupuncture at acupoint HT7; PC6, acupuncture at acupoint PC6. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM (<i>n</i> = 8) of the percentage of time spent in the open arms of the EPM for a 5-min test period (eight rats per group). *<i>P</i> &lt; .05, compared with ETH group (ANOVA, followed by the post hoc Newman-Keuls multiple comparison test).</table>

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Figure 2: Acupuncture Attenuates Anxiety-Like Behavior by Normalizing Amygdaloid Catecholamines during Ethanol Withdrawal in Rats 