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ReviewJournal of asthma and allergy2024

Research on the Mechanism and Application of Acupuncture Therapy for Asthma: A Review.

Fei-Xuan Wang, Lu-Wei Jin

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Review in Journal of asthma and allergy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Astragalus polysaccharide mitigates the airway inflammation in bronchial asthma by regulating Hedgehog/NLRP3/GSDMD pathway.The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Fei-Xuan WangDepartment of Clinical Medical College, Qilu Medical College, Zibo, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
Lu-Wei JinDepartment of Acupuncture and Tuina, Wenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is a high-risk disease based on airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). In this review, we found that there are many studies on clinical therapy for asthma that focus on the efficacy of acupuncture therapy and its mechanisms, including the functional connectivity of different brain regions, with the aid of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), immune responses/cell recognition (innate lymphoid cells and balance of Th1/Th2 and Treg/Th17), intracellular mechanism (autophagy, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and epigenetic alteration), and ligand-receptor/chemical signaling pathway (neurotransmitter, hormone, and small molecules). In this review, we summarized the clinical and experimental evidence for the mechanisms of acupuncture therapy in asthma to offer insights into drug discovery and clinical therapy. Given the paucity of clinical studies on the mechanisms of acupuncture in the treatment of asthma, this review notably included studies based on animal models to investigate the mechanisms of acupuncture in the treatment of asthma.

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acupointacupuncture therapyasthmafMRImechanism

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PMID38828396
PMCPMC11144428

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