Moxibustion and Acupuncture Ameliorate Crohn's Disease by Regulating the Balance between Th17 and Treg Cells in the Intestinal Mucosa

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhao, Chen ^a   Bao, Chunhui ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Zhu, Yifang ^b   Wang, Siyao ^a   Yang, Ling ^c   Shi, Yin ^a   Liu, Huirong ^a   Dou, Chuanzi ^a   Ding, Guanghong ^b,c   Wang, Xiaomei ^a   Wu, Huangan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Department of Acupuncture Moxibustion Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ^*  (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOXIBUSTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL; WHEAT;

EID: 84939617667     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/938054     Document Type: Article

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