Electroacupuncture suppresses surgical trauma stress-induced lymphocyte apoptosis in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 383, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 68-72

  Wang, Jun ^a   Wang, Yan Qing ^a   Yu, Jin ^a   Cao, Xiao Ding ^a   Wu, Gen Cheng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Fas; Lymphocyte apoptosis; Stress; Surgical trauma

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; FAS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; SURGICAL INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC;

EID: 20344371427     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.03.068     Document Type: Article

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