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

Table 3

The FasmRNA and Caspase-3mRNA relative expression level 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	0.1034±0.0085	0.1125±0.0133	0.1357±0.0272	0.1906±0.0290	0.2176±0.0132	0.1928±0.0150
Model group	9	0.5069±0.0687^••	0.7223±0.0257^••	0.3147±0.0142^•	0.4074±0.0310^••	0.8583±0.0402^••	0.6534±0.0273^••
Elongated needle group	9	0.4075±0.0216^▴	0.5992±0.0396^▴	0.2834±0.0216	0.4289±0.0151	0.6236±0.0223^▴▴	0.3478±0.0258^▴▴

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