International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS)
ISSN: 2319-5886 Indexed in: ESCI (Thomson Reuters)
Jianping Chen
School of Chinese Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong KongPublications
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Research
Music Therapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine Attenuates the Depression-Associated Breast Cancer Development in MMTV-PyMT Nice and Clinics
Author(s): Lei Jia, Li Guo, Zhuanfang Zheng, Jin Yu, Jieshu You, Kumar Ganesan, Yi Lin and Jianping Chen*
Background: Depression is a mental illness that disturbs an individual’s health, which exacerbates the development of BC and reduces the quality of an individual’s life. Objective: To investigate the impacts of Traditional Chinese Medicine Music (TCMM) intervention on the depressed BC mouse model and explore the potential underlying mechanisms. Methodology: The intervention of TCMM and its impact on the body weight, tumor size, tumor weight, and behavioral tests were conducted in Chronic Mild Stress (CMS) induced MMTV-PyMT mice. Furthermore, CMSinduced oxidative stress-related Thioredoxin-1 (TRX-1) was also determined using western blot. A clinical trial was conducted to validate the effect of stress-related TRX-1 during the intervention of TCMM. Results: The outcome of the study showed that mice under the environment of TCMM significantly reduced the breast tumor size, tu.. Read More»
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