Ningxia Medical University Key Laboratory of Ningxia Minority Medicine Modernization Ministry of Education

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Mechanism of Shu-Mu Brain-Kidney Acupoint in Treating Oligoasthenospermia in Rats via the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Testicular Axis

Kaiying Li^1,2,3, Nan Yang¹, Wenjing Sun¹, Zhenning Zhao^1,2,3, Hongyu Li^1,2,3, Xiaoge Wei¹, Lili Zhao¹, Yan Wang¹, Jing Mu¹, Huisheng Ma^1,2,3

¹College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningxia Medical University, ²Ningxia Medical University Key Laboratory of Ningxia Minority Medicine Modernization Ministry of Education, ³Ningxia Regional Key Laboratory of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of Regional High Incidence Disease

This study aims to verify the therapeutic effect of the Shu-Mu Brain-Kidney acupoint on oligoasthenospermia in rats and to explore its underlying mechanism through the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular (HPT) axis.