TY - JOUR AU - Zhang, Yu-Kai AU - Wang, Jian AU - Liu, Ling AU - Chang, Raymond Chuen-Chung AU - So, Kwok-Fai AU - Ju, Gong PY - 2013 DA - 2013/03/22 TI - The effect of Lycium barbarum on spinal cord injury, particularly its relationship with M1 and M2 macrophage in rats JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 67 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Our past researches suggested that L. barbarum exhibits direct neuroprotective and immune regulatory effects on the central nervous system, which are highly related to the events involved in the spinal cord injury, but not yet been investigated. Immune responses play an important role in the development of the pathology after secondary injury, particularly the M1 and M2 types of macrophage, on which special emphasis was laid in this study. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-13-67 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-13-67 ID - Zhang2013 ER -