Electroacupuncture exerts anti-inflammatory effects in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injured rats via suppression of the TLR4/NF-κB pathway

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-80

  Lan, Lan ^a   Tao, Jing ^a   Chen, Azhen ^a   Xie, Guanli ^a   Huang, Jia ^a   Lin, Jiumao ^a   Peng, Jun ^a   Chen, Lidian ^a  

^a FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia reperfusion; Electroacupuncture; Inflammatory response; Toll like receptor 4 nuclear factor B pathway; Zusanli (ST36) and Quchi (LI11) acupoints

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENCEPHALITIS; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84873201596     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2012.1184     Document Type: Article

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