Neural control of cerebral blood flow: scientific basis of scalp acupuncture in treating brain diseases

GY Jin, LL Jin, BX Jin, J Zheng, BJ He… - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Scalp acupuncture (SA), as a modern acupuncture therapy in the treatment of brain
diseases, especially for acute ischemic strokes, has accumulated a wealth of experience …

Mechanisms of acupuncture therapy for cerebral ischemia: an evidence-based review of clinical and animal studies on cerebral ischemia

W Zhu, Y Ye, Y Liu, XR Wang, GX Shi, S Zhang… - Journal of neuroimmune …, 2017 - Springer
Ischemic stroke is a major cause of mortality and disability worldwide. As a part of Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture has been shown to be effective in promoting …

Global trends and hotspots in research on acupuncture for stroke: a bibliometric and visualization analysis

J Zhang, C Ji, X Zhai, S Ren, H Tong - European Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Acupuncture has been widely used in stroke and post-stroke rehabilitation (PSR), but there
is no literature on the bibliometric analysis of acupuncture for stroke. This study aimed to …

Acupuncture modulates disrupted whole‐brain network after ischemic stroke: Evidence based on graph theory analysis

X Han, H Jin, K Li, Y Ning, L Jiang, P Chen… - Neural …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Stroke can lead to disruption of the whole‐brain network in patients.
Acupuncture can modulate the functional network on a large‐scale level in healthy …

Electroacupuncture suppresses the NF-κB signaling pathway by upregulating cylindromatosis to alleviate inflammatory injury in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion rats

J Jiang, Y Luo, W Qin, H Ma, Q Li, J Zhan… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Electroacupuncture (EA) may reduce inflammatory injury by inhibiting nuclear factor-kappa
B (NF-κB) signaling pathway activation after ischemic stroke. Thus, we explored temporal …

Potential mechanisms of acupuncture in enhancing cerebral perfusion of ischemic stroke

L Wang, XT Su, Y Cao, NN Yang, XW Hao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ischemic stroke is the predominant cause of long-term disability and death worldwide. It is
attributable to the sudden interruption of regional cerebral blood flow, resulting in brain cell …

Upregulation of neuronal zinc finger protein A20 expression is required for electroacupuncture to attenuate the cerebral inflammatory injury mediated by the nuclear …

J Zhan, W Qin, Y Zhang, J Jiang, H Ma, Q Li… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Background Zinc finger protein A20 (tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced protein 3)
functions as a potent negative feedback inhibitor of the nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) signaling. It …

Acupuncture for stroke: A bibliometric analysis of global research from 2000 to 2022

C Guan, Y Feng, L Cao, Y Wang, Q Zhang, L Liu, H Xie… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Objective This study aimed to explore the global and future research trends in acupuncture
interventions for stroke between 2000 and 2022 using bibliometric analysis. Method A …

Enhanced functional connectivity between the bilateral primary motor cortices after acupuncture at Yanglingquan (GB34) in right-hemispheric subcortical stroke …

Y Ning, K Li, C Fu, Y Ren, Y Zhang, H Liu… - Frontiers in Human …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Increasing neuroimaging researches in stroke rehabilitation had revealed the neural
mechanisms of rehabilitation therapy. However, little was known about the neural …

Trends in use of acupuncture among adults in Taiwan from 2002 to 2011: a nationwide population-based study

MY Wu, YC Lee, CL Lin, MC Huang, MF Sun, HR Yen - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
In recent years, acupuncture has gained in popularity worldwide. However, recent
epidemiological studies are lacking. We conducted this study to investigate the trends in …