ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2018
The Effect of Electroacupuncture versus Manual Acupuncture through the Expression of TrkB/NF-
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- A true response of the brain network during electroacupuncture stimulation at scalp acupoints: An fMRI with simultaneous EAS study.Brain and behavior · 2023Trial
- Manual Acupuncture for Improvement of Nasolabial Fold: A Quasi-Experimental Research.Medical acupuncture · 2025Article
- Electroacupuncture Ameliorates Neuronal Damage and Neurological Deficits after Cerebral Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury via Restoring Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2025Article
- Anti-oxidative-initiated cognitive impairment amelioration in Alzheimer's disease model rats through preventive transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation.Integrative medicine research · 2023Article
- Efficacy of acupuncture in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease and its impact on gut microbiota: Study protocol for a randomized sham-controlled trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy for cognitive impairment: the microbiome-gut-brain axis and its role.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Crosstalk between Acupuncture and NF-Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Review
- Reply to "Letter to the Editor: Acupuncture is not a unique explanation for reflex excitatory cardiovascular responses".American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Our previous study showed that the acupuncture stimulation on the acupoint (ST-36) could activate the brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) signaling pathways in telomerase-deficient mice. Recently, we set out to investigate whether the manual acupuncture (MA) or electroacupuncture (EA) displays a therapeutic advantage on age-related deterioration of learning and memory. Both telomerase-deficient mice (Terc
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