Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice

Friday, August 14, 2020 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

A team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School has successfully used acupuncture to tame cytokine storm in mice with systemic inflammation. In the study, published Aug. 12 in Neuron, acupuncture activated different signaling pathways that triggered either a pro-inflammatory or an anti-inflammatory response in animals with bacterially induced systemic inflammation. Further, the team […]

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