ArticleFrontiers in immunology2022
Electroacupuncture Alleviates LPS-Induced ARDS Through α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor-Mediated Inhibition of Ferroptosis.
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- Potential Relationship Between Ferroptosis and Pyroptosis in Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
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- Electroacupuncture Alleviates Pulmonary and Intestinal Injury in Septic Mice via Inhibiting NLRP3 Inflammasome and Remodeling Gut Microbiota.Current medical science · 2026Article
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- Bridging iron and lung injury: the emerging role of ferroptosis in ARDS.European journal of medical research · 2025Review
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- Ferroptosis in Cancer and Inflammatory Diseases: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications.MedComm · 2025Review
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- Identification of shared important genes associated with ferroptosis across different etiologies of acute lung injury.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Arginine methyltransferase PRMT1 promotes ferroptosis through EGR1/GLS2 axis in sepsis-related acute lung injury.Communications biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an uncontrollable, progressive pulmonary inflammatory disease, and as a common clinical critical disease, there is no effective treatment available. Electroacupuncture (EA) therapy is a type of traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy that can alleviate the inflammatory response. However, the potential mechanism of EA in the treatment of ARDS is not yet clear. Ferroptosis is a new type of programmed cell death characterized by intracellular iron accumulation and lipid peroxidation. Recently, emerging evidence has shown that ferroptosis is closely related to the occurrence and development of ARDS caused by various pathological factors. Here, we further investigated whether EA-mediated inhibition of ferroptosis in lung tissue could attenuate lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ARDS and explored its underlying mechanisms. In this study, mice were administered LPS intraperitoneally to establish a model of LPS-induced ARDS. We found that EA stimulation could not only reduce the exudation of inflammatory cells and proteins in the alveolar lumen but also significantly alleviate the pathological changes of lung tissue, inhibit the production of proinflammatory cytokines and improve the survival rate of mice. Concurrently, we also found that ferroptosis events occurred in the lung tissue of LPS-induced ARDS mice, manifested by elevated iron levels, ROS production and lipid peroxidation. Intriguingly, our results showed that EA stimulation at the Zusanli (ST36) acupoint activated α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAchR) in lung tissue mainly through the sciatic nerve and cervical vagus nerve, thus exerting anti-ferroptosis and pulmonary protective effects. Additionally, these effects were eliminated by methyllycaconitine (MLA), a selective antagonist of α7nAchR.
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