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dc.contributor | Department of Biomedical Engineering | - |
dc.contributor | Department of Rehabilitation Sciences | - |
dc.creator | Chow, DHK | - |
dc.creator | Lai, A | - |
dc.creator | Tang, FH | - |
dc.creator | Leung, CP | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-11T08:26:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-11T08:26:25Z | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1749-8546 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/7060 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central Ltd. | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2013 Chow et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_US |
dc.title | Effects of Panax ginseng-containing herbal plasters on compressed intervertebral discs in an in vivo rat tail model | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.description.otherinformation | Author name used in this publication: Daniel H K Chow | en_US |
dc.description.otherinformation | Author name used in this publication: Mason C P Leung | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1749-8546-8-4 | - |
dcterms.abstract | Background: Tienchi (Panax notoginseng) has been used in conservative treatments for back pain as a major ingredient of many herbal medicines. This study aims to investigate the effects of a herbal medicine containing tienchi on compressed intervertebral discs in rats. | - |
dcterms.abstract | Methods: Using an in vivo rat tail model, intervertebral disc compression was simulated in the caudal 8–9 discs of 25 rats by continuous static compression (11 N) for 2 weeks. An herbal medicine plaster (in which the major ingredient was tienchi) was externally applied to the compressed disc (n=9) for three weeks, and held in place by an adhesive bandage, in animals in the Chinese Medicine (CM) group. The effect of the bandage was evaluated in a separate placebo group (n=9), while no intervention with unrestricted motion was provided to rats in an additional control group (n=7). Disc structural properties were quantified by in vivo disc height measurement and in vitro morphological analysis. | - |
dcterms.abstract | Results: Disc height decreased after the application of compression (P < 0.001). The disc height decreased continuously in the control (P = 0.006) and placebo (P = 0.003) groups, but was maintained in the CM group (P = 0.494). No obvious differences in disc morphology were observed among the three groups (P = 0.896). | - |
dcterms.abstract | Conclusion: The tienchi-containing herbal plaster had no significant effect on the morphology of compressed discs, but maintained disc height in rats. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Chinese medicine, 18 Feb. 2013, v. 8, 4, p. 1-8 | - |
dcterms.isPartOf | Chinese medicine | - |
dcterms.issued | 2013-02-18 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000320461600001 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84873937937 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 23419188 | - |
dc.identifier.rosgroupid | r65677 | - |
dc.description.ros | 2012-2013 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal | - |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | OA_IR/PIRA | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
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