EXPERIMENTAL SPINAL CORD TRAUMATIC INJURY OF THE CAT TREATED WITH ELECTRO-ACUPUNCTURE

44 cats were used in this experiment. The spinal cords of 40 animals were injuredat about L_1 level by using Allen's method (400g/cm) and randomly divided into 2 groups: A)electro-acupuncture treatment group (n=20) and B) control group(n=20). 2 weeks after spinalcord injury, 80% of animals in the treatment group were survival and 45% of animals in the con-trol group were survival. There was significant difference between these two groups (p<0. 05).The motor evoked potential was recorded two weeks after spinal cord injury. The latency of theshort latency peak was 15. 61±4. 98 mS and the amplitude was 10. 61 0. 59 mV in the treatmentgroup; and 21. 7±5. 02 mS and 0. 56±0. 32 mV in the control group. Both latency and amplitudewere significant different between the two groups (P<0. 05, P<0. 05). The Anti-NF-H (neuro-filament) was determined at 2 and 4 weeks respectively after spinal cord injury. The more NF-Hpositive labeling fibers were found in the treatment group than in the control group (P<0. 01 ).The

EXPERIMENTAL SPINAL CORD TRAUMATIC INJURY OF THE CAT TREATED WITH ELECTRO-ACUPUNCTURE