Effect of Heated Needle on the Pathological Changes of Articular Cartilage in Mice with Experimental Knee Osteoarthritis / 广州中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Objective] To observe the effect of heated needle on the pathological changes of articular cartilage in mice with experimental knee osteoarthritis (OA). [ Methods ] Sixty-four NIH mice were randomly divided into 4 groups: heated needle group, electro-acupuncture (EA) group, model group and normal control group, 16 mice in each group. The mice models with knee OA were made with Xie's method, and then were treated for 2 weeks according to the experimental design. [Results] After treatment, the movable angle of right back knee in mice was increased in heated needle group and EA group ( P