Electroacupuncture Treatment Alleviates Central Poststroke Pain by Inhibiting Brain Neuronal Apoptosis and Aberrant Astrocyte Activation

Figure 5

Effects of the different frequency EA treatments on β-catenin expression in the brains of the CPSP rats. (a) Representative photomicrographs of immunohistochemical staining of β-catenin in the brains of the CPSP rats that had been treated with or without EA on the 5th day after the operation. (b) Determination of β-catenin expression in the brains of the CPSP rats brain using a multispectral analysis (ipsilateral brain section). (c) Representative Western blots of β-catenin expression in the ipsilateral neocortex and hippocampus of the rats. (d) Western blot determination of (c). denotes versus the control; , , and denote , 0.01, and 0.001 versus the model ( in each group; one-way analysis of variance, followed by the Newman-Keuls post hoc test).

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