Effect of Warm Acupuncture Combined with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transplantation on Cartilage Tissue in Rabbit Knee Osteoarthritis

<div>Histological evaluation. (A) representative photomicrographs of toluidine blue staining (×100) of the rabbit cartilage tissue of knee joint. (a) Blank group; (b) KOA group; (c) warm acupuncture (WA) group; (d) BMSCs group; (e) warm acupuncture combined with BMSCs group. (B) Effects of warm acupuncture combined with BMSCs on ultrastructural alterations in cartilage cells of knee joint (20000x magnification; bar = 1000 nm).</div>

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Figure 4: Effect of Warm Acupuncture Combined with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transplantation on Cartilage Tissue in Rabbit Knee Osteoarthritis 

Figure 4 | Effect of Warm Acupuncture Combined with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transplantation on Cartilage Tissue in Rabbit Knee Osteoarthritis 