Analysis of the Present Situation of Using Common Animal Models of Acupuncture Analgesia as the Research Platform
10.13460/j.issn.1005-0957.2015.09.0899
- VernacularTitle:常用针灸镇痛动物模型研究平台应用现状分析
- Author:
Hongwei FU
;
Bo CHEN
;
Shouhai HONG
;
Yi GUO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acupuncture therapy;
Animal model;
Review;
Acupuncture analgesia
- From:
Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2015;(9):899-902
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Acupuncture as an effective complementary and alternative therapy can effectively relieve inflammatory and neurogenic pain, and a proper animal model is a key link to ensure the quality of research in acupuncture analgesia. This article makes some suggestions for improving model making methods, unifying model assessing criteria, and selecting and locating acupoints by analyzing present commonly used animal models of acupuncture analgesia and the present situation of their application and identifying some problems about model making methods, evaluation indices, acupoint selection and clinical transformation existing in animal models of acupuncture analgesia in order to promote the development of basic research in acupuncture.
