Prophylactic effects of short-term acupuncture on Zusanli (ST36) in Wistar rats with lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury

Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 969-975

  De Sá Ferreira, Arthur ^a   Mourão E Lima, Januário Gomes ^a   Teixeira Ferreira, Tatiana Pereira ^b   Tavares Lopes, Camila Madeira ^a   Meyer, Rubens ^a  

^a Augusto Motta University Center   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Acute lung injury; Lipopolysaccharides; Rats

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 73849104229     PISSN: 16721977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3736/jcim20091011     Document Type: Article

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