Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2015, Article ID 340126, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/340126
Research Article
Acupuncture Attenuated Inflammation and Inhibited Th17 and Treg Activity in Experimental Asthma
1Department of Integrative Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, 12 Middle Urumqi Road, Shanghai 200040, China
2Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Fudan University, 12 Middle Urumqi Road, Shanghai 200040, China
3Gumei Community Health Center, 668 Longming Road, Shanghai 201102, China
Received 22 July 2015; Accepted 21 September 2015
Academic Editor: Kamal D. Moudgil
Copyright © 2015 Ying Wei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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