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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Med. 2014 Feb 23;20(3):291–295. doi: 10.1038/nm.3479

Figure 3. Electroacupuncture “rescues” mice from established polymicrobial peritonitis.

Figure 3

(a-c) Adult C57BL/6 male mice underwent sham or electroacupuncture (EA) started right after the endotoxin challenge (LPS; 12 mg kg−1; i.p.). (a) Survival was represented in a Kaplan-Meier analysis (n=20/group, *P<0.01 Survival Logrank test vs. control). (b) Morbidity and (c) weight modifications were represented in mean ± SE. *P<0.01 (n=6/group; One-way ANOVA with Bonferroni’s corrections). (d-e) All mice underwent CLP and sham or electroacupuncture (EA) started (d) 15 min before or (e) 24 h after the CLP. In addition to the first treatment, all animals received sham or electroacupuncture for 15 min once a day for the next two days. Survival was represented in a Kaplan-Meier analysis (n=15/group, *P<0.05 Survival Logrank test vs. control). (f) Mice underwent surgical adrenalectomy (ADX) before CLP and subsequent sham or electroacupuncture (EA, given once a day for three days). Survival is represented in a Kaplan-Meier analysis (n=20/group, *P<0.05 Survival Logrank test vs. control).