Effects of pressing moxibustion at Baihui (GV 20) and Guanyuan (CV 4) on cognitive impairment and serum levels of Aβ, tau, P-tau in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Objectives: To compare the effects of pressing moxibustion at Baihui (GV 20) and Guanyuan (CV 4) combined with donepezil hydrochloride tablets and donepezil hydrochloride tablets alone on cognitive impairment in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease(AD), and to explore the mechanism of pressing moxibustion in the treatment of mild to moderate AD from the serum levels of β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ), microtubule-associated protein tau and phosphorylated tau (P-tau).

Methods: A total of 76 patients with mild to moderate AD were randomly divided into an observation group (38 cases, 4 cases dropped out) and a control group (38 cases, 2 cases dropped out). Patients in the control group were given oral donepezil hydrochloride tablets (5 mg each time, once a day).

[Effects of electroacupuncture at "Weizhong" (BL 40) on morphology and expression of CK and IL-17 in rats with bupivacaine-induced multifidus muscle injury].

Objective: To observe effects of electroacupuncture (EA) at "Weizhong" (BL 40) on morphology and expression of creatine kinase (CK) and interleukin-17 (IL-17) in rats with bupivacaine-induced multifidus muscle injury.

Methods: A total of 32 male SD rats were randomly divided into a control group, a model group, a Weizhong group and a Shenshu group, 8 rats in each one. The rats in the model group, Weizhong group and Shenshu group were treated with intramuscular injection of 0.

Rupture during the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms: outcomes and technical aspects.

Object: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and outcomes of intraprocedural rupture (IPR) during endovascular coil embolization of intracranial aneurysm at a single center and to explore the technical reasons and put forward corresponding preventive measures for the feared event to serve as references for other endovascular specialists.

Methods: The aneurysm database in our series was retrospectively reviewed. From April 2005 to March 2009, 176 aneurysms were consecutively treated with coils in 161 patients and IPR occurred in 12 patients.

[Observation on short and long-term effects of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy treated with abdominal acupuncture plus Long's bone-setting manipulation].

Objective: To compare the short and long-term therapeutic effects on cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) treated with simple Long's bone-setting manipulation, abdominal acupuncture and abdominal acupuncture plus Long's bone-setting manipulation.

Methods: One hundred and eighty cases of CSR were randomly allocated into abdominal acupuncture plus bone-setting group (combined therapy group), bone-setting group and abdominal acupuncture group, 60 cases in each group. In combined therapy group, the abdominal acupuncture and Long's bone-setting were applied in combination.

[Comprehensive therapeutic protocol of electroacupuncture combined with Chinese herbs and rehabilitation training for treatment of cerebral infarction: a multi-center randomized controlled trial].

Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic effect of comprehensive therapeutic protocol of electroacupuncture combined with active-blood-and-dissolve-stasis herbs and rehabilitation training for cerebral infarction.

Methods: A multi-center randomized controlled trial was done, three hundred and twenty cases were divided into four groups: electroacupuncture combined with active-blood and dissolve-stasis herbs and rehabilitation training group (group A), electroacupuncture combined with rehabilitation training group (group B), herbs combined with rehabilitation training group (group C) and rehabilitation training group (group D), 80 cases in each group. The following two groups of acupoints were used alternatively in electroacupuncture treatment: the first group including Vasomotor Area, Jianyu (LI 15), Biguan (ST 31), Hegu (LI 4) and Taichong (LR 3); the second group including Motor Area, Quchi (LI 11), Yanglingquan (GB 34) and Shenshu (BL 23).

Acupuncture combined with music therapy for treatment of 30 cases of cerebral palsy.

Objective: To observe clinical therapeutic effects of acupuncture combined with music therapy for treatment of cerebral palsy.

Methods: Sixty children with cerebral palsy were randomly divided into an acupuncture group (Group Acup.) and an acupuncture plus music group (Group Acup.

[Clinical observation on acupuncture for treatment of hypertension of phlegm-stasis blocking collateral type].

Objective: To explore the clinical therapeutic effect of acupuncture on hypertension of phlegm-stasis blocking collateral type and the mechanism.

Methods: Sixty cases of hypertension were randomly divided into a treatment group and a control group, 30 cases in each group. The treatment group were treated with acupuncture at Fengchi (GB 20), Quchi (LI 11), Neiguan (PC 6), Zusanli (ST 36), Fenglong (ST 40), Taicehong (LR 3), and oral administration of Captori, and the control group only with Captoril, for 4 therapeutic courses.

[Effects of different acupuncture intensities on the therapeutic effect and the gastric electric activity in the patient of diabetic gastroparesis].

Objective: To observe clinical therapeutic effect of different acupuncture intensities on diabetic gastroparesis and to search for the best acupuncture intensity for treatment of diabetic gastroparesis.

Methods: Eighty cases were randomly divided into 4 groups, strong, moderate, weak acupuncture intensity groups and an oral hypoglycemic drug group, 20 cases in each group. Two weeks of treatment constituted one course.

[Syndrome differentiation patterns for peri-operative coronary heart disease patients of coronary artery bypass graft].

Objective: To explore the patterns of Syndrome Differentiation of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) on the peri-operative coronary heart disease (CHD) patients.

Methods: One week after operation, thirty-seven CHD patients, who received CABG of internal mammary artery or great saphenous vein under conventional general anesthesia with low or middle temperature extracorporeal circulation were differentiated as various syndromes, the pre- and post-operational ECG, color Doppler echocardiography as well as during and after operation. The hemodynamic parameters were monitored.