Herb-partitioned moxibustion alleviates colonic inflammation in Crohn’s disease rats by inhibiting hyperactivation of the NLRP3 inflammasome via regulation of the P2X7R-Pannexin-1 signaling pathway

• Ji Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ji Zhang, Xue-jun Wang, Li-jie Wu, Ling Yang

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xue-jun Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ji Zhang, Xue-jun Wang, Li-jie Wu, Ling Yang

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Li-jie Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ji Zhang, Xue-jun Wang, Li-jie Wu, Ling Yang

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Ling Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ji Zhang, Xue-jun Wang, Li-jie Wu, Ling Yang

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Immunology, Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Yan-ting Yang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Immunology, Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Dan Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Immunology, Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Jue Hong,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Immunology, Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xi-ying Li,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xiao-qing Dong,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xiao-cong Guo,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Rong Han,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xiaopeng Ma

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: pengpengma@163.com

  Affiliations Yueyang Clinical Medicine School, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Immunology, Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9532-4870

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