Acupuncture combined with moxibustion promote the recovery of spinal cord injury in correlation with Shh/Gli-1 signaling pathway.

Conclusion: AM could improve the expression of Shh and Gli-1 in injured spinal cord of rats. That could be part of underlying mechanisms of AM treatment including recover motor function and preserve the neuron cells and alleviate the apoptosis of nerve cells in rats after SCI. PMID: 32441569 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32441569?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - May 23, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Spinal Cord Med Source Type: research