Electroacupuncture Promotes Insulin-Like Growth Factors System in Ovariectomized Osteoporosis Rats
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine
- Vol. 36 (5), 889-897
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0192415x08006326
Abstract
Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (PMOP) is induced by the deficiency of estrogen in postmenopausal women. Electroacupuncture (EA) has been confirmed to be effective in clinic. We adopted ovariectomized osteoporosis model of rats to observe the role of EA in PMOP. Fifty female SD rats were divided randomly into 5 groups: intact (INT, n = 10), sham operation (Sham, n = 10), model ( n = 10), estrogen (E, n = 10) and electroacupuncture (EA, n = 10). The bone mineral content (BMC) and the bone mineral density (BMD) were examined in lumbar1–6 and right thigh-bone, respectively, and estrodiol (E2), insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGF-BPs) were tested by RIA or ELISA. The results showed that BMC and BMD of lumbar 1–6 and right thigh-bone in PMOP model rats decreased markedly, while the level of serum E2, IGF-I and IGF-BP1 were lower than in INT and Sham. However, EA could upgrade the contents of IGF-I and IGF-BP1 to increase BMD in PMOP rats, while no significant difference was seen in E group. Therefore, EA may promote IGF system to improve PMOP.Keywords
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