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Electroacupuncture improves acute bowel injury recovery in rat models.

Electroacupuncture (EA) accelerates intestinal functional recovery in sepsis. The present study investigated ghrelin and ghrelin receptor (GSH-R) levels during EA in rats with acute bowel injury (ABI). Rats were grouped into four groups: Sham, ABI, ABI+EA and ABI+GHRA+EA (n=12 per group). ABI was induced by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). EA on bilateral Zusanli acupoints was performed following CLP. GSH-R blocker (GHRA) was used following CLP but prior to EA for ABI+GHRA+EA rats. Rats were sacrificed 12 h following CLP. Serum ghrelin, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) levels, as well as ghrelin and GSH-R protein expression, water content, pathological changes and myeloperoxidase (MPO) and diamine oxidase (DAO) activities in the bowel tissues, were measured. ABI rats, compared with the sham rats, had significantly lower levels of ghrelin and GSH-R in the serum and bowel tissue, and higher Chiu's score (all P<0.05). The ABI+EA rats, compared with the ABI rats, had significantly reduced serum TNF-α and HMGB1 levels, bowel water content, MPO activity and Chiu's score (all P<0.05), and significantly higher serum ghrelin (121.2±10.7 vs. 86.7±6.4 pg/ml), bowel ghrelin (0.12±0.02 vs. 0.08±0.01), GSH-R (0.05±0.04 vs. 0.03±0.01) and DAO activity (18.74±4.18 vs. 13.52±2.33 U/ml; all P<0.05), indicating an improvement of the intestinal mucosal barrier. GHRA reversed the protective effects of EA. Therefore, EA improved ABI recovery by promoting ghrelin secretion and upregulating GSH-R expression.

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