Cortisol Secretion and Subsequent Impaired Lymphopoiesis after Starvation Can Be Reduced by Moxibustion Treatment

Table 2

Effect of Mox treatment on the cellularity of bone marrow cells^††.

Groups	Total counts (×10^6 cells)	Differential cell counts (×10^6 cells)
		B lineage	Pre/Pro	Immature	Mature
Nonstarved	11.3 ± 0.99	3.48 ± 0.34	2.19 ± 0.31	0.87 ± 0.05	0.41 ± 0.05
Starved, sham-treated	7.00 ± 0.51^##	1.37 ± 0.15^###	0.47 ± 0.07^###	0.34 ± 0.04^###	0.56 ± 0.09
Starved, Mox-treated	10.9 ± 1.03	2.44 ± 0.23	1.26 ± 0.15	0.57 ± 0.10	0.61 ± 0.11

^††Mox treatment was performed four times, and at 2 days, following the start of starvation, total cell counts of collected bone marrow cells were ascertained. Differential cell counts were determined using flow cytometric analysis, and the results for B lineage (CD19⁺), immature B (IgM⁺), and mature B (IgM⁺ IgD⁺) cells were collected. The number of pre/pro (IgM⁻ IgD⁻) cells was estimated by subtracting immature and mature B cell values from B lineage data. Values are presented as the means ± standard error of the mean (n = 5). and vs. the nonstarved group. and vs. sham-treated controls. Mox, moxibustion.