Safety Assessment of the Auto Manipulation Device for Acupuncture in Sprague-Dawley Rats: Preclinical Evaluation of the Prototype

Figure 2

Manual acupuncture at ST36 with AMDA and tissue sampling from ST 36. (a) ST 36 was located 4 mm bellowed and 1-2 mm lateral to the midpoint of the knee. Manual acupuncture with AMDA (b) was performed after well anesthesia. (c) After rechecking the margin of muscle (yellow) and bone (blue), the muscle tissues of ST 36 (red) were obtained (d).

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