The Mechanism of Effective Electroacupuncture on T Cell Response in Rats with Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Yumei ^a   Wang, Hongwei ^b   Wang, Xinyue ^a   Mu, Lili ^a   Kong, Qingfei ^a   Wang, Dandan ^a   Wang, Jinghua ^a   Zhang, Yao ^a   Yang, Jinfeng ^a   Zhou, Mingyan ^a   Wang, Guangyou ^a   Sun, Bo ^a   Li, Hulun ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TH1 TH2 BALANCE; TH17 CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NALOXONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH1-TH2 BALANCE; TH17 CELLS;

EID: 84873803944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051573     Document Type: Article

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