TY - JOUR AU - Huang, Yong AU - Tang, Chunzhi AU - Wang, Shuxia AU - Lu, Yangjia AU - Shen, Wei AU - Yang, Junjun AU - Chen, Junqi AU - Lin, Renyong AU - Cui, Shaoyang AU - Xiao, Huiling AU - Qu, Shanshan AU - Lai, Xinsheng AU - Shan, Baoci PY - 2012 DA - 2012/06/27 TI - Acupuncture regulates the glucose metabolism in cerebral functional regions in chronic stage ischemic stroke patients—a PET-CT cerebral functional imaging study JO - BMC Neuroscience SP - 75 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Acupuncture has been applied to aid in the recovery of post-stroke patients, but its mechanism is unclear. This study aims to analyze the relationship between acupuncture and glucose metabolism in cerebral functional regions in post-stroke patients using 18 FDG PET-CT techniques. Forty-three ischemic stroke patients were randomly divided into 5 groups: the Waiguan (TE5) needling group, the TE5 sham needling group, the sham point needling group, the sham point sham needling group and the non-needling group. Cerebral functional images of all patients were then acquired using PET-CT scans and processed by SPM2 software. SN - 1471-2202 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-13-75 DO - 10.1186/1471-2202-13-75 ID - Huang2012 ER -