Influence of moxibustion on NR2B and PKMζ after neural stem cell transplantation in the rats with vascular dementia: 艾灸对血管性痴呆大鼠神经干细胞移植后海马 …

R SUN, J YANG, P WANG, Y FAN, J CUI… - World Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective To observe the influence of moxibustion on learning and memory ability in the rats
with vascular dementia (VD) and explore the potential effect mechanism. Methods A total of
80 rats, screened by Morris water maze, were randomly divided into a sham-operation
group, a model group, a neural stem cells (NSCs) group, a NSCs+ piracetam group and a
NSCs+ moxibustion group, 16 rats in each group. After corresponding treatments, Morris
water maze and immunofluorescence technique were adopted to evaluate the therapeutic …