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  • Calcific tendinitis of the shoulder involves painful calcium deposits forming in the rotator cuff, mainly affecting the supraspinatus, which can lead to further complications if untreated.* -
  • A 67-year-old woman with severe shoulder pain and movement restrictions underwent 12 acupuncture sessions, after which her MRI showed resolved calcifications and much improved shoulder function.* -
  • The study concludes that acupuncture is effective for treating calcific tendinitis, but recommends larger studies for more definitive evidence.*
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Evidence-based Cesarean Delivery: Postoperative Care (Part 10).

Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM

November 2024

Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address:

The following review focuses on routine postoperative care after cesarean delivery (CD), including specific Enhanced Recovery After Cesarean (ERAS) recommendations as well as important postpartum counseling points. Following CD, there is insufficient evidence to support administration of prophylactic multi-dose antibiotics to all patients. Additional antibiotic doses are indicated for the following scenarios: patients with obesity, CD lasting ≥ 4 hours since prophylactic dose, blood loss >1,500 mL, or those with an intra-amniotic infection.

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Ailanthone inhibits non-small cell lung cancer growth and metastasis through targeting UPF1/GAS5/ULK1 signaling pathway.

Phytomedicine

June 2024

Department of Immunology and Pathogenic Biology, School of Integrative Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China. Electronic address:

Background: Targeting long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) is a novel and promising approach in cancer therapy. In our previous study, we investigated the effects of ailanthone (aila), the main active compound derived from the stem barks of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle, on the growth of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells.

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Background: The wounds failing to heal through a timely and orderly standard of care (SOC) treatment are considered as chronic wounds, which add significant burden to healthcare systems around the world. SOC treatment has been commonly applied for management of chronic wounds, but SOC alone may not be adequate to heal all ulcers effectively. Fish skin graft (FSG) is a xenogenic skin substitute which could be used for accelerating skin healing.

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Background: During anesthesia administration for cataract surgery, low pH of proparacaine may induce pain or complications such as corneal damage and poor wound healing, with the use of additional drops intraoperatively increasing the risk of complications. Accordingly, there is a clinical need for adjuncts to local anesthesia needs to improve the efficiency of anesthesia and reduce the required amount of intraoperative proparacaine.

Aim: To identify a method of anesthesia for geriatric cataract phacoemulsification that provides more efficient analgesia and improves clinical efficacy.

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Advantage effect of Dalbergia pinnata on wound healing and scar formation of burns.

J Ethnopharmacol

December 2023

Clinical Medical College of Acupuncture Moxibustion and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, PR China. Electronic address:

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Dalbergia pinnata, as a natural and ethnic medicine in China, has been used for burns and wounds with a long history, which has the effect of invigorating blood and astringent sores. However, there were no reports on the advantage activity of burns.

Aim Of Study: The purpose of this study was to screen out the best active extract part of Dalbergia pinnata and investigate its therapeutic effect on wound healing and scar resolution.

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Background And Purpose: Resina Draconis (RD) is widely used to treat topical skin ulcers. However, its effect on diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) remains unknown. The present meta-analysis aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of RD for wound healing in DFU treatment.

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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex disease that often causes multiple systemic complications that have become a major international public health problem. Diabetic foot (DF) is one of the severe and frequent chronic complications of DM due to vascular lesions and neuropathy. DF ulcers (DFU) affect approximately 15% of people with DM and are the leading cause of death and disability.

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Primo Vascular Node in the Bone Marrow and Longevity.

J Acupunct Meridian Stud

February 2022

Department Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.

Background: Intra-organic bone marrow node is predicted to be a part of the primo vascular system that plays a critical role in hematopoiesis and generation and regeneration of other cells. Two models of cell regeneration were suggested, one involving DNA synthesis and the other pertaining to DNA recycling. Objectives: The aim of this work is to extract a primo node from bone marrow, characterize its structure, understand its biochemistry and cell composition, and suggest a cell regeneration mechanism.

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New evidence suggests that abnormal expression of circular RNA (circRNA) is associated with the development of human cancers. This study aims to reveal circMYOF roles in the malignant phenotype of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). The expression of circMYOF, microRNA (miR)-145-5p, and orthodenticle homeobox 1 (OTX1) was detected by quantitative real-time PCR.

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Case study: Pilot testing of a local acupuncture intervention protocol for burn scars.

Scars Burn Heal

February 2022

Department of Physiotherapy, Fiona Stanley Hospital, South Metropolitan Health Service, Murdoch, WA, Australia.

Background: Following burn injury and a prolonged duration of healing, scars may become hypertrophic, causing movement restriction, increased scar thickness, colour and pliability, and symptoms such as pain and itch. Acupuncture has emerged as a potentially beneficial treatment for neuroinflammation, which perpetuates the negative features of hypertrophic scars. The aim of this study was to pilot test an evidence-based methodology for applying and measuring the clinical effects of localised acupuncture for symptomatic scars, in a patient with a healed burn injury.

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Background: Constipation is the most predominant symptom of Parkinson disease (PD), preceding the occurrence of motor symptoms in some patients, leading to reduced quality of life (QOL). The general approaches for the treatment have some side effects, but probiotics are live or attenuated microorganisms attributed to ameliorating constipation effects. Moreover, as treatments are generally well tolerated and side effects are scarce, there is room for further research.

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Introduction: Moxibustion, a traditional Chinese medicine technique, involves the use of moxa smoke from to treat various disorders, especially superficial infections. However, there is a higher health risk for people exposed to high levels of moxa smoke for extended durations. Here, we report the first ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) fingerprint profiles and pharmacodynamic evaluation of moxa smoke, as well as evaluation of its aqueous solution on a rat model of superficial infection.

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Electroacupuncture anesthesia for laparotomy in goats.

Open Vet J

October 2021

Department of Surgery, Anaesthesiology and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Background: The objective of the study to evaluate the effect of electroacupuncture during laparotomy in goats.

Aim: To study the abdominal anesthesia in goats by electroacupuncture using the physiological variables, vital parameters, hematological, biochemical, cortisol hormone, pain threshold, and wound healing for laparotomy in goats.

Methods: Fifteen healthy adult bucks were used to receive electroacupuncture in 10 newly selected acupoints.

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Unhealed chronic wounds often deteriorate into multiple infection with several kinds of bacteria and excessive proteolytic wound exudate and remains one of the common healthcare issues. Here, the functional and antimicrobial hydrogel and cryogel biomaterials were prepared from glycol chitosan and a novel biodegradable Schiff base crosslinker difunctional polyurethane (DF-PU). The cryogel exhibited ~2730 ± 400% of water absorption with abundant macropores and 86.

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To explore the clinical effects of single pedicle transfer of expanded axial flap across the midline of the frontal-parietal region in reconstruction of large scar deformities in the face and neck. From January 2016 to August 2019, 10 male patients, aged from 20 to 52 years with post-burn facial and cervical scar deformities, were admitted to the First People's Hospital of Zhengzhou, with the size of scar ranging from 15 cm×7 cm to 23 cm×11 cm. In the first stage, a cylindrical skin and soft tissue expander with rated capacity ranging from 400 to 600 mL was placed in the frontal-parietal region.

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Background: Burn-specific pain anxiety and sleep disorders are common factors in burned patients that affect wound healing process, as well as the severity of burn pain. This study aimed to investigate the effect of foot reflexology massage on burn-specific pain anxiety and sleep condition of patients hospitalized in the burn ICU.

Method: In this randomized controlled clinical trial, 52 patients were assigned by permuted block randomization 1:1 to the intervention (n=26) and control (n=26) groups.

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Introduction: Anecdotally, acupuncture is used in the treatment of scar tissue in order to improve scar quality and reduce symptoms of pain and pruritus. Unlike conditions such as lower back pain, knee osteoarthritis and migraines, there are no systematic reviews to confirm treatment efficacy. This systematic literature review aims to assess the current level of evidence for the use of acupuncture for treating abnormal scars such as hypertrophic or other symptomatic scars.

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Background: In this study, we investigated the role of artemin, a member of the glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor of ligands, in the malignant phenotype of lung cancer.

Methods: Artemin expression was examined in various types of lung cancer and normal lung tissues, as well as in lung cancer cell lines by immunohistochemistry and semi-quantitative PCR. Functional studies were performed using artemin overexpression or knockdown vectors in lung cancer cell lines.

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Professor 's clinical experiences were introduced in the intervention on atopic dermatitis with external therapies of TCM acupuncture. On the basis of the theory as cultivating the earth and clearing the heart from professor and in terms of the disease stages and skin lesion characteristics, as well as in consideration of syndrome differen-tiation, the acupoints for strengthening the spleen and clearing heart fire are selected, such as Zhongwan (CV 12), Daheng (SP 15), Shuifen (CV 9), Tianshu (ST 25), Neiguan (PC 6) and Quchi (LI 11). For the repair of skin lesion, the integration of Chinese and western medicine is used, with the internal application and external use of Chinese herbal medicines involved.

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Acupuncture and Cutaneous Medicine: Is It Effective?

Med Acupunct

October 2017

Medical Acupuncture of Chester County, West Chester, PA.

In China, acupuncture has been used as a form of medical therapy for more than 2500 years. It is a part of traditional medical practice and is used to treat the entire spectrum of human and veterinary disease. Although dermatologic disease has received much less attention in worldwide acupuncture research than pain and musculoskeletal conditions, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting acupuncture's usefulness in this area.

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Moxibustion is an Alternative in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis: The Evidence From Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Medicine (Baltimore)

February 2016

From the Department of Nursing, Tianjin Hospital (G-MS); School of Nursing (XT, Y-HJ, Y-HD, HZ, X-LP); Graduate College (XT, Y-HD, HZ); Evidence-based Nursing Center, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin (Y-HJ); and Department of Oncology, Affiliated Hospital to Zunyi Medical University (J-GZ), Zunyi, China.

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common disorder in elderly. There is no known cure for KOA, and thus therapeutic strategies of alleviating symptoms are increasingly emphasized. Moxibustion has been widely used to treat KOA; however, results are inconclusive.

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[Effect of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor and Transforming Growth Factor-Β1 Combined with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells on the Repair of Degenerated Intervertebral Discs in Rat Models].

Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao

August 2015

Department of Orthopaedics,Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University,Zhenjiang,Jiangsu 212001,China 2Department of Surgery,Medicine School, Jiangsu University,Zhenjiang,Jiangsu 212013,China.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of the combination of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), transforming growth factor-Β1 (TGF-Β1), bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), and temperature-responsive chitosan hydrogel (TCH) gel on the repair of degenerative intervertebral disc in rat models.

Methods: Rat models of intervertebral disc degeneration were established by acupuncture. The degenerative effects were observed under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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Objective: To examine the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on early post-rupture tendon repair in a rat model of Achilles tendon rupture using histological and mechanical evaluation.

Methods: An Achilles tendon rupture model was prepared in 90 Wistar rats, which were randomly assigned to EA, manual acupuncture or control groups. Rats in the EA group received EA (pulse width 5 ms; stimulation frequency 50 Hz; stimulation strength 20 μA; stimulation time 20 min) daily from 1 day following model preparation until the day of assessment (either 7 or 10 days after model preparation), when the region of interest was sampled to assess tendon repair using in vitro methods.

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