Electroacupuncture improves gut barrier dysfunction in prolonged hemorrhagic shock rats through vagus anti-inflammatory mechanism

Figure 4 Gut injury scores at 12 h after blood loss. Gut injury was scored by a pathologist blinded to the experimental groups on a scale of 0-4, (as described in Materials and Methods). ^aP < 0.05 vs EAN group, (3-5 animals per group at 12 h after blood loss). EA: Electroacupuncture; VGX: Vagotomy; α-BGT: α-bungarotoxin.