Distribution of Mast Cells and Locations, Depths, and Sizes of the Putative Acupoints CV 8 and KI 16

Table 1

Number density of mast cells at the putative acupoints CV 8 and KI 16 and at the fat pad and the background density.

		CV 8			Right KI 16			Left KI 16			Right NHP			Left NHP			B			Fat pad
		1	8/26	4	2.6	1.5	7	1.8	3.9	5	2.3	2.2	6	1.9	3.2	6	2.7	2.2	33	83.1	0.1	1	2.5	0.4
2	8/25	4	1.4	2.9	5	1.8	2.8	3	1.4	2.1	6	2.3	2.6	3	2.7	1.4	28	278.6	0.1	2	33.3	0.1
3	8/25	2	0.7	2.9	3	1.4	2.1	4	1.3	3.1	4	1.6	2.5	6	1.4	4.3	30	132.1	0.2	7	13.8	0.5
4	8/26	10	1.3	7.7	4	2.1	1.9	3	0.9	3.3	4	2	2	4	1.4	2.9	40	81.7	0.5	5	8.6	0.6
5	8/26	2	0.9	2.2	4	1.2	3.3	2	0.6	3.3	6	1.3	4.6	3	1.1	2.7	43	153.8	0.3	4	9.8	0.4
6	8/27	3	1.8	1.7	3	3.5	0.9	4	3.1	1.3	4	3	1.3	4	4	1	33	105.1	0.3	5	26.1	0.2
7	8/24	5	1.7	2.9	3	1	3	7	2.7	2.6	3	1.8	1.7	3	5.6	0.5	26	119.6	0.2	1	0.8	1.3
8	8/27	2	0.5	4	2	0.5	4	2	0.8	2.5	4	1.0	4	5	3.9	1.3	5	99.2	0.1	3	10.3	0.3
9	8/26	3	0.8	3.8	2	0.7	2.9	5	1	5	4	1.6	2.5	7	1.6	4.4	37	162.8	0.2	4	9	0.4
10	8/24	2	0.6	3.3	4	1.7	2.4	4	1.3	3.1	5	2.2	2.3	3	1.7	1.8	40	76.2	0.5	6	3.5	1.7
Average	8/25.6	3.7	1.2	3.3	3.7	1.6	2.7	3.9	1.5	2.9	4.6	1.9	2.7	4.4	2.6	2.3	31.5	129.2	0.3	3.8	11.8	0.6
SD	0/1.0	2.3	0.7	1.7	1.4	0.8	0.9	1.4	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.5	1.0	1.4	1.5	1.3	10.3	57.3	0.1	1.9	9.9	0.5

= mouse number; = age (week)/weight (g); NHP = next high MC density point; B = background; = number of MCs; = area (10⁴ um²); = (number/10⁴ μm).