[Acupuncture and Moxibustion and Immunity: the Actuality and Future]

Autor: Shu-Guang, Yu, Xiang-Hong, Jing, Yong, Tang, Qiao-Feng, Wu, Hai-Yan, Yin, Lu-Shuang, Xie, Na, Zhao, Si-Rui, Lin, Xiao-Ning, Chai
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Zhen ci yan jiu = Acupuncture research. 43(12)
ISSN: 1000-0607
Popis: Immunity reaction has been regarded as a key step for clinical acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. In the present paper, we review current situations about studies on acupuncture-moxibustion induced immunoregulation from 1) related project fundings of National Natural Science Foundation (NCFS) of China from 1989-2017; 2) papers published in SCI and Chinese medical journals from 2010-2018; 3) clinical conditions or disorders treated by acupuncture and moxibustion and their clinical therapeutic effects; 4) the commonly used acupoints for studying immune regulation functions; 5) some mechanisms of innate immunity and adaptive immunity involved; and 6) immune adjustment pathways involved. Moreover, in our future studies, we suggest to pay more attention to 1) the detailed cellular molecular mechanisms; 2) interactions among the immune cells, the immune cells and non-immune cells and cytokines responsible for regulation effects of acupuncture-moxibustion; 3) interrelationship of different systems as skin-brain axis, brain-intestinal axis, nerve-blood vessel unit of brain tissues, etc. involving acupuncture-moxibustion induced immunoregulation by using new techniques as proteomics, genomics, two-photon imaging technology, tracer technique, cryo-electronic microscope technology, etc.
Databáze: OpenAIRE