Publications by authors named "Xi-bin Dou"
Objective: To observe the effect of Zhuang-medical thread moxibustion combined with needle-pricking on vascular oxidative stress injury in oxidative stress injury rats.
Methods: Eighty Wistar rats were randomly allocated to normal control, sham operation (sham), model, and combined treatment groups (n=20 in each group). The oxidative stress injury model was established by ligation of the left sciatic nerve to induce chronic constriction injury (CCI) pain stress stimulation.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to investigate how needle pricking therapy affects the expression of certain proteins and mRNAs related to asthma in mice, particularly focusing on TSLP, T-bet, and GATA-3.
- Thirty BALB/c mice with asthma were divided into three groups: control, model, and treatment (needle pricking), with asthma induced using Ovalbumin.
- Results showed that needle pricking significantly reduced GATA-3 mRNA and TSLP protein levels while increasing T-bet mRNA levels, leading to improvements in lung pathology associated with asthma.