Acupuncture Relieves the Excessive Excitation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Cortex Axis Function and Correlates with the Regulatory Mechanism of GR, CRH, and ACTHR

<table>Experimental protocol. There were 5 groups. N: the normal group, no acupuncture; NEA: the normal acupuncture group, acupuncture at Qimen (LR14) and Shenshu (BL23); M: UCMS group, no acupuncture; MNEA: the group of UCMS acupuncture at Sanyinjiao (SP6) and Zhubin (KI9); MEA: the group of UCMS acupuncture at Qimen (LR14) and Shenshu (BL23) group.</table>

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Figure 1: Acupuncture Relieves the Excessive Excitation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Cortex Axis Function and Correlates with the Regulatory Mechanism of GR, CRH, and ACTHR 

Figure 1 | Acupuncture Relieves the Excessive Excitation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Cortex Axis Function and Correlates with the Regulatory Mechanism of GR, CRH, and ACTHR 