A Brief Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medical Elongated Needle Therapy on Acute Spinal Cord Injury and Its Mechanism

Table 2

The Fas and Caspase-3 optical density values of rabbit spinal cord tissue among each group at different time points.

Group	𝑛	Fas			Caspase-3
		1 d	3 d	5 d	1 d	3 d	5 d
Sham-operation group	9	0.040±0.009	0.041±0.010	0.049±0.009	0.0412±0.0217	0.0247±0.0129	0.0358±0.0125
Model group	9	0.372±0.047^••	0.743±0.068^••	0.256±0.040^•	0.4050±0.0554^••	0.7468±0.0486^••	0.2723±0.0404^••
Elongated needle group	9	0.314±0.089^▴	0.465±0.045^▴▴	0.216±0.063^▴	0.3935±0.0767	0.5540±0.0439^▴▴	0.226±0.0749^▴

compared with sham-operation group ^•𝑃<0.05 and ^••𝑃<0.001; compared with model group ^▴𝑃<0.05 and ^▴▴𝑃<0.01.