HMOX1 and Sepsis: It was reported that acupuncture at ST36 could protect kidneys from sepsis-induced injury by reducing renal MDA [30, 43, 46], renal inflammatory cytokines (inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) [52, 63], nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) [63], MPO [52, 60], and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) [60]), plasma levels of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) [30, 43, 46, 52, 63], and creatinine (Cr) [30, 43, 46, 52, 60, 63], improving renal histopathology scores [30, 43, 46], upregulating renal SOD [30, 43, 46], and HO-1 protein [30, 43, 46] expression.