Electroacupuncture improves neurological deficits and enhances proliferation and differentiation of endogenous nerve stem cells in rats with focal cerebral ischemia

Neurological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-204

  Tao, Jing ^a   Xue, Xie Hua ^a   Chen, Li Dian ^a   Yang, Shan Li ^a   Jiang, Min ^a   Gao, You Liang ^a   Wang, Xiang Bin ^a  

^a FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Focal cerebral ischemia; Nerve stem cells; Rats

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FOCAL CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77949471383     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313209X414506     Document Type: Article

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