[Improvement in colonic inflammatory injury in rats via activating dorsal cholinergic neurons of vagus with electroacupuncture at sensitized acupoints].

Objective: To observe the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) at sensitized acupoints on choline acetyltransferase positive (ChAT) neurons in dorsal motor nucleus (DMV) of brainstem vagus in the colitis model rats and explore the mechanism of the improvement in colonic inflammatory injury in the rats.

Methods: A total of 79 male SD rats were randomized into five groups, i.e.

[Location, selection, and comparative anatomy of "Taixi" (KI3), "Shuiquan" (KI5), "Fuliu" (KI7), "Jiaoxin" (KI8), "Zhubin" (KI9), and "Yingu"(KI10) acupoints in rabbits].

Objective: To investigate the.

Methods: for locating and selecting the acupoints of "Taixi" (KI3), "Shuiquan" (KI5), "Fuliu" (KI7), "Jiaoxin" (KI8), "Zhubin" (KI9), and "Yingu" (KI10) and the morphological structure of these acupoints in rabbits. MethodsAccording to the WHO and national standards for human acupoints and rabbit X-ray images, acupoint locations were marked using the anatomical landmarks on body surface in 10 New Zealand rabbits.

[Hierarchical structure of Five-shu points and Source-point of Triple Energizer Meridian in rabbits].

Objective: To study the position and hierarchical structure of Five-shu points, i．e., "Guanchong" (TE1), "Yemen" (TE2), "Zhongzhu" (TE3), "Yangchi" (TE4) and "Zhigou" (TE6), and the Source-point "Tianjing" (TE10) of the Triple Energizer (TE) Meridian in the rabbit.

Methods: Based on WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations in the Western Pacific Region (WHO Standard) and National Standard (GB/T 22103-2008) for Acupuncture Point Locations in human body, and combined with X-ray images, the hierarchical structure of Five-shu points and Source-point of the TE Meridian were observed in ten New Zealand rabbits.

[Identification of Pu'er teas with different storage years by FTIR spectroscopy].

Infrared spectra of Pu'er raw tea and Pu'er ripe tea were investigated using Fourier transform spectroscopy, in order to exploit a rapid method for discrimination of aging period for Pu' er tea samples. The results showed that the two kinds of Pu'er teas shared a similar woveform of infrared spectrum. However, due to the variations of aging time, leading to different chemical composition in pu'er teas, both Pu'er raw tea and ripe tea displayed corresponding different characteristic peaks.

Antennal sensilla of Apanteles cypris Nixon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a larval endoparasitoid of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Guenée (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae).

Apanteles cypris is an endoparasitoid of rice pest Cnaphalocrocis medinalis. To better understand its host location mechanism, we examined the external morphology of antennal sensilla of A. cypris via scanning electron microscopy.