Table 2.

Behavior tests and changes by acupuncture treatment in PD animal studies.

References	Result	Behavior tests
Liang et al., 2002	N/A
Liang et al., 2003	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Park et al., 2003	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Kim et al., 2005	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Kang et al., 2007	N/A
Jeon et al., 2008	Improved	Pole test ↓
Choi et al., 2009	N/A
Jia et al., 2009	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Hong et al., 2010	N/A
Jia et al., 2010	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Kim et al., 2010	N/A
Yu et al., 2010	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Choi et al., 2011a	N/A
Choi et al., 2011b	N/A
Kim et al., 2011a	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Kim et al., 2011b	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Wang et al., 2011	N/A
Yang et al., 2011	Improved	Pole test ↓
Huo et al., 2012	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Sun et al., 2012	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Rui et al., 2013	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓
Wang et al., 2013	Improved	Open field ↑
Yeo et al., 2013	N/A
Kim et al., 2014	N/A
Deng et al., 2015	Improved	Rotarod ↑ Open field ↑ Grip strength ↑ Gait analysis ↑
Lv et al., 2015	Improved	Open field ↑ (vertical activity)
Park et al., 2015	Improved	Rotarod ↑ Cylinder test ↑
Shen et al., 2015	N/A
Yeo et al., 2015	N/A
Jia et al., 2017	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Sun et al., 2016	Improved	Rotarod ↑ Rotational behavior ↓ Open field ↑
Tian et al., 2016	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Yu et al., 2016	Improved	Rotarod ↑ Cylinder test ↑ Locomotion ↑
Yang et al., 2017	N/A
Park et al., 2017	Improved	Rotarod ↑
Jeon et al., 2017	Improved	Pole test ↓
Lee et al., 2018	Improved	Pole test ↓
Lu et al., 2017	Improved	Morris water maze ↓
Li et al., 2017a	N/A
Li et al., 2017b	Improved	Rotarod ↑ Open field ↑
Lin et al., 2017	Improved	Rotational behavior ↓ Locomotion ↑
Wang et al., 2018	Improved	Rotarod ↑ Rotational behavior ↓

Improved, motor dysfunction by PD was mitigated by acupuncture; N/A, not applicable; ↑, increase of the value compared to PD model; ↓, decrease of the value compared to PD model.