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ArticleNeural plasticity2020

Electroacupuncture on Trigeminal Nerve-Innervated Acupoints Ameliorates Poststroke Cognitive Impairment in Rats with Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion: Involvement of Neuroprotection and Synaptic Plasticity.

Yu Zheng, Zongshi Qin, Bun Tsoi, Jiangang Shen, Zhang-Jin Zhang

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Article in Neural plasticity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yu ZhengSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Zongshi QinSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Bun TsoiSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jiangang ShenSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Zhang-Jin ZhangSchool of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8416-3426
University of Hong Kong · HKUniversity of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poststroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is a severe sequela of stroke. There are no effective therapeutic options for it. In this study, we evaluated whether electroacupuncture (EA) on the trigeminal nerve-innervated acupoints could alleviate PSCI and identified the mechanisms in an animal model. The male Sprague-Dawley rat middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model was used in our study. EA was conducted on the two scalp acupoints,

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Acupuncture PointsElectroacupunctureNeuronal PlasticityAnimalsCognitive DysfunctionHippocampusInfarction, Middle Cerebral ArteryMalePrefrontal CortexRats, Sprague-DawleyTrigeminal Nerve

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PMID32963517
PMCPMC7492933
OpenAlexW3083690940

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