Visual Analysis of the Use of Acupoints in Rabbits in the Past 20 Years Based on Bibliometrics
Objective To summarize the use and common use of rabbit acupoints in acupuncture and moxibustion experiments in the past 20 years,and analyze the literature characteristics,change trend and research status of rabbit experimental studies.Method To retrieve between January 1999 and October 2020 CNKI and PubMed,included the research literature on acupuncture and moxibustion experiment,establish a rabbit as the research object of the application of acupoints experiment database,statisti-cal analysis was carried out on the use frequency of acupoints,extraction of acupoints combination,intervention,intervention meth-ods of disease related information;Citespace software is also used to perform visual analysis of literature and show the develop-ment context of this field.Results A total of 692 Chinese articles and 96 English articles were included,totaling 788 articles.The most selected rabbit species is The New Zealand white rabbit.The most selected rabbits were 228 male rabbits.The top 5 acu-points of the use frequency were zusanli 257,Neiguan 150,Dubi 73,Shenshu 71 and Inner knee eye 68 respectively.The most commonly used acupoint collocation methods are Juque,Tianshu,Fenglong,Xinshu,Ganshu and Pishu,with a total of 12 articles.The diseases to be intervened are hyperlipidemia.The most studied disease was knee osteoarthritis,87 articles in total.The year with the largest number of publications was 2014,with 65 articles in total.Hunan was the most published region,with 92 articles in total.Electroacupuncture was the most intervention method,with a total of 356 articles.Conclusion Acupuncture and moxibus-tion treatment schemes for some diseases have achieved remarkable curative effects in animal experiments on rabbits.This paper explores the frontier direction and research trend of related fields through literature measurement,providing research direction and theoretical basis for further in-depth research.
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