Electrical Characterization of Proposed Transpositional Acupoints on the Urinary Bladder Meridian in a Rat Model

Table 1

Nomenclature of the BL acupoints in this study.

Left side		*Land-	Right side
^#2nd BL	^§1st BL	mark vertebra	^§1st BL	^#2nd BL
EBL-1	BL11	T1	BL11	EBL-1
BL41	BL12	T2	BL12	BL41
BL42	BL13	T3	BL13	BL42
BL43	BL14	T4	BL14	BL43
BL44	BL15	T5	BL15	BL44
BL45	BL16	T6	BL16	BL45
BL46	BL17	T7	BL17	BL46
^†EBL-3	^†EBL-2	T8	^†EBL-2	^†EBL-3
^†EBL-5	^†EBL-4	T9	^†EBL-4	^†EBL-5
BL47	BL18	T10	BL18	BL47
BL48	BL19	T11	BL19	BL48
BL49	BL20	T12	BL20	BL49
BL50	BL21	T13	BL21	BL50
BL51	BL22	L1	BL22	BL51
BL52	BL23	L2	BL23	BL52
^†EBL-6	BL24	L3	BL24	^†EBL-6
^†EBL-7	BL25	L4	BL25	^†EBL-7
^†EBL-8	BL26	L5	BL26	^†EBL-8
BL53	BL27	L6	BL27	BL53

*T: thoracic vertebra, L: lumbar vertebra, individual BL acupoint located on the 1st BL or the 2nd BL line to the lower border of the spinous process of each landmark vertebra.
^§1st BL: 1st urinary bladder meridian (the longitudinal line extending from the middle point between the 2nd BL line and the midline of the back), ^#2nd BL: 2nd urinary bladder meridian (the longitudinal line extending from the end of the atlas wing), ^†EBL: extra BL acupoints, which are acupoints that have not been previously established.