Effect of electro-acupuncture on the expression of heat shock protein-70 gene in rat spinal cords following spinal cord injury

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 722-726

  Zhang, Zean ^a   Wang, Qiangli ^a   Zhi, Yuzhu ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Nonaka, Hiroko ^b   Sibuya, Kazutoshi ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electro acupuncture; Heat shock protein 70; Rats; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTRODE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 79960409092     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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