Acupuncture Improves Sleep Conditions of Minipigs Representing Diurnal Animals through an Anatomically Similar Point to the Acupoint (GV20) Effective for Humans

Figure 4

Effects of acupuncture on sleep conditions including sleep efficiency (SE, (a)), total sleep time (TST, (b)), and activity (c) during 2200–0400 h when acupuncture was performed. Different color marks denote the respective MMPigs. Horizontal dotted lines denote the average of the respective data. *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, between indicated pairs by the paired Student’s t-test.

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