Abdominal Manual Therapy Repairs Interstitial Cells of Cajal and Increases Colonic c-Kit Expression When Treating Bowel Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury

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Overall conditions of animals in different groups. (a) Animal weight was measured before and 15 days after spinal cord injury (SCI) or sham operation in the sham, SCI, and SCI with mosapride treatment (SCI + Drug), low-intensity manual therapy (SCI + LMT), and high-intensity manual therapy (SCI + HMT) groups (). , compared with the preoperative values; , compared with the sham group; or , compared with the SCI group. (b) The improved BBB score was assessed before and 24 hours or 15 days after SCI or sham operation in the sham, SCI, SCI + Drug, SCI + LMT, and SCI + HMT groups (). , compared with the sham group; , compared with the preoperative values; , compared with the 24 h values.

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