We explored the neurochemical mechanism of electroacupuncture's (EA) protective effect on brain function in focal cerebral ischemia rats, using cerebral ischemia/reperfusion rats established by the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) method. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into four groups: Sham, Sham+EA, MCAO and MCAO+EA. The rats in Sham+EA and MCAO+EA were accepted E...

PURPOSE The study was designed to evaluate the disease outcome based on multiple biomarkers related to cerebral ischemia. METHODS Rats were randomly divided into sham, permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion, and edaravone-treated groups. Cerebral ischemia was induced by permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion surgery in rats. To form a simplified crosstalk network, the related multiple...

Clinical Prognosis Correlated with Hemispheric Blood Flow in Cerebral Infarction • In 44 patients with acute unilateral cerebral infarction, there was reduction of hemispheric blood flow (HBF) and metabolism in the healthy hemisphere (phenomenon of diaschisis) as well as in the diseased hemisphere in patients in all age groups (30 to 70 years of age). In patients with symptoms present for three...

Ischemia or hemorrhage are the byproducts of cerebrovascular disease, manifest as sudden, focal neurological deficits related to specific vascular territories of the central nervous system. Impairment or loss of consciousness is a global deficit, which rarely is caused by simultaneous, extensive or multiple hemorrhages or ischemic infarctions, and is more commonly due to other causes such as ce...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to elucidate the clinical characteristics of patients with spinal epidural abscess (SEA) and demonstrate the risk factors, treatments and neurologic outcomes. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records and radiologic images of 35 patients admitted to our department with SEA between March 1987 and April 2011. While we performed decompressive lami...