Acupoint specificity on acupuncture regulation of hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal cortex axis function

Table 1 The effects of different acupoints on the open field test and sucrose consumption of rats

Behavior test	Normalized data	Day	N group	NEA group	M group	MNEA group	MEA group
Open Field Test	Horizontal movement	23th	0.76 ± 0.17	0.70 ± 0.17	0.23 ± 0.07***	0.17 ± 0.05***	0.24 ± 0.09***
	Horizontal movement	29th	0.40 ± 0.10	0.44 ± 0.05	0.03 ± 0.01**	0.06 ± 0.02**	0.20 ± 0.03*#
	Vertical movement	23th	0.64 ± 0.04	0.65 ± 0.22	0.33 ± 0.08*	0.22 ± 0.08*	0.23 ± 0.06*
	Vertical movement	29th	0.27 ± 0.09	0.35 ± 0.15	0.12 ± 0.02	0.21 ± 0.05	0.21 ± 0.05
	Along-the-line movement	23th	0.80 ± 0.03	0.76 ± 0.08	0.34 ± 0.13**	0.12 ± 0.08**	0.23 ± 0.08**
	Along-the-line movement	29th	0.56 ± 0.03	0.58 ± 0.08	0.14 ± 0.08***	0.12 ± 0.05***	0.10 ± 0.06***
Sucrose consumption		24th	1.83 ± 0.17	1.90 ± 0.23	1.23 ± 0.20*	1.20 ± 0.15*	1.17 ± 0.15*
Sucrose consumption		30th	2.17 ± 0.13	2.44 ± 0.26	1.31 ± 0.13***	1.79 ± 0.10*#	2.30 ± 0.06###△

The data showed that the normalized data of behavior test score after modeling and after treatment. M was UCMS group, MEA was UCMS target acupoints group, MNEA was UCMS non-target acupoints group, N was control group, NEA was control target acupoints group. The data were expressed as mean ± SEM in each group. ^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001, vs. N group. #p < 0.05, ###p < 0.001 vs. M group. △p < 0.05, MNEA vs. MEA group. Normalized data = tested value on the 23rd, 24th, 29th or 30th day / tested value on -1th day or 0^th day in same animal separately [19].

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