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The article discusses a study which compared the effectiveness of emulational manual acupuncture and electroacupuncture in inhibiting visceral traction pain. The study was done using 40 male Sprague Dawley rats assigned equally and randomly to sham surgery, model, emulational manual acupuncture and electroacupuncture groups at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai, China. Changes in acetylcholine esterase activity, c-Fos protein expression, among others were observed during emulational manual acupuncture pretreatment.

The article discusses a study which measured iron deposition in the brain assessed the relationship between iron deposition and Alzheimer's disease. The study was performed at the Department of Radiology, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, China and involved 20 AD patients with a mean age of 72.5 years. It found that corrected phase (CP) values, measured using susceptibility-weighted imaging, were significantly reduced in bilateral hippocampal regions of AD patients compared with normal controls.