Effects of warm needling moxibustion on knee cartilage and morphology in rats with knee osteoarthritis

• Published in: Zhōngguó zhēnjiǔ Vol. 36; no. 2; p. 175
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yongliang, Mi, Yiqun, Gang, Jiahong, Wang, Huamin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 01.02.2016
• Subjects: Acupuncture Points; Animals; Cartilage - anatomy & histology; Disease Models, Animal; Humans; Knee Joint - anatomy & histology; Male; Moxibustion; Osteoarthritis, Knee - therapy; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Treatment Outcome
• ISSN: 0255-2930

To observe the effects of warm needling moxibustion on body mass, knee cartilage andmorphology in rats with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Forty SD rats were randomly divided into a normalgroup, a model group, a medication group and a warm needling group, 10 rats in each one. Except the normalgroup, the rats in the remaining three groups were injected with papain to establish the model of KOA. After themodeling, rats in the model group did not receive any treatment; rats in the warm needling group were treated withwarm needling moxibustion at bilateral "Xiqian"; rats in the medication group were treated with intragastric administration of meloxicam; rats in the normal group were treated with 0. 9% NaCl solution (identical dose as medication group) and immobilized as the warm needling group. The treatment was given once a day for consecutive20 days. The body mass, scale of knee cartilage and morphological changes were observed in each group after'treatment. The increasing of body mass in the medication group and w