Decreased heart rate by acupuncture stimulation in humans via facilitation of cardiac vagal activity and suppression of cardiac sympathetic nerve

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 165-168

  Nishijo, Kazushi ^a   Mori, Hidetoshi ^a   Yosikawa, Keishi ^a   Yazawa, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Bradycardia; Heart rate; Human; Parasympathetic nerve; Sympathetic nerve

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ATROPINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PROPRANOLOL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHOLYTICS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030990710     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00337-6     Document Type: Article

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