Establishment and Evaluation of a Rat Model of Spinal Cord Injury with the Pathopattern of Qi-Deficiency and Blood-Stasis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

• Main Authors: Liang Li (Author), Feng Li (Author), Jian Yin (Author), Bo Pan (Author), Qing-Ping Yu (Author), Xiong Cai (Author), Hui-Yong Huang (Author), An Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd., 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT: Objective To establish a rat model of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) with the pathopattern of Qi-deficiency and Blood-stasis (QDBS) in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and then assess its feasibility.Methods Swimming exhaustion method and Rubrospinal Tract (RST) transection were combined to e...