2015
Far-Infrared Therapy Promotes Nerve Repair following End-to-End Neurorrhaphy in Rat Models of Sciatic Nerve Injury.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, Volume 2015, Article ID 207245, 10 pages
FIR treatment can reverse sciatic nerve injury by end-to-end nerve suture in experimental rats. Far Infrared Therapy as a Novel Treatment for Hand Ischemia Following Arteriovenous Graft for Hemodialysis.
EJVES Short Reports. 2015. Vol.28 p.30-33.
FIR therapy as a new treatment for steel syndrome after AVG surgery. Stimulatory influences of Far Infrared Therapy on the Transcriptome and Genetic Networks of Endothelial Progenitor Cells Receiving High Glucose Treatment.
Acta Cardiol Sin. 2015 Sep;31(5):414-28.
FIR treatment effects on endothelial progenitor cell transcriptome and gene networks during hyperglycemia.
2013
Length polymorphisms of heme oxygenase-1 determine the effect of far-infrared therapy on the function of arteriovenous fistula in hemodialysis patients: a novel physicogenomic study.
Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2013 May;28(5):1284-93.
A long polymorphism in heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) determines the effect of FIR therapy on AVF in hemodialysis patients: a novel physicogenomics study.
Effect of far infrared therapy on arteriovenous fistula maturation: an open-label randomized controlled trial.
Am J Kidney Dis. 2013 Aug;62(2):304-11.
Effect of FIR therapy on development of AVF: an open-label, randomized controlled trial.
Post-angioplasty far infrared radiation therapy improves 1-year angioplasty-free hemodialysis access patency of recurrent obstructive lesions.
Eur J Vsc Endovasc Surg. 2013 Dec; 46(6):726-32.
FIR therapy effectively reduces the incidence of reocclusion within one year after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA).
2012
Far infra-red therapy promotes ischemia-induced angiogenesis in diabetic mice and restores high glucose-suppressed endothelial progenitor cell functions.
Cardiovase Fiabetol. 2012 Aug 15;11:99.FIR therapy enables diabetic mice to regenerate new vasculature by ischemia and restore vascular endothelial progenitor cells suppressed by hyperglycemia.
Far-infrared therapy induces the nuclear translocation of PLZF which inhibits VEGF-induced proliferation in human umbilical vein endothelial cells.
PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e30674.
Far-infrared irradiation induces translocation of the PLZF gene in human umbilical cord endothelial cells, and inhibited vascular endothelial cell growth factor proliferates vascular endothelium. Far infrared ray irradiation attenuates apoptosis and cell death of cultured keratinocytes stressed by dehydration.
J Photochem Photobiol B. 2012 Jan 5;106:61-8.
Apoptosis by dehydration, which suppresses corneocytes by irradiating far infrared rays.
2011
Far-infrared radiation promotes angiogenesis in human microvascular endothelial cells via extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation.
Photochem Photobiol. 2011 Mar-Apr;87(2):441-6.
Far-infrared rays activate extracellular signal-regulated kinase in human microvascular endothelial cells and promote angiogenesis.
2009
Phantom limb pain treated by far infrared ray.Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;2009:1589-91.
Prognostic factors influencing the patency of hemodialysis vascular access: literature review and novel therapeutic modality by far infrared therapy.
J Chin Med Assoc. 2009 Mar;72(3):109-16.
Prognostic factors influencing patency of hemodialysis vascular access: review of existing studies of FIR therapy and new treatment modalities.
2008
Far infrared therapy inhibits vascular endothelial inflammation via the induction of heme oxygenase-1. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008 Apr;28(4):739-45.
FIR therapy induces heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) and suppresses vascular endothelial inflammation.
2006
Biological Effect of Far-Infrared Therapy on Increasing Skin Microcirculation in RatsYu SY, Chiu JH, Yang SD, Hsu YC, Lui WY, Wu CW.2006 Mar;Photodermatology Photoimmunology .