The effect of electro-acupuncture stimulation on the muscle blood flow of the hindlimb in anesthetized rats

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 78-86

  Noguchi, Eitaro ^a   Ohsawa, Hideo ^a   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^a   Shimura, Mayura ^a   Uchida, Sae ^a   Sato, Yuko ^a  

^a TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electro acupuncture; Laser Doppler flowmeter; Lumber sympathetic trunk; Muscle blood flow; Rats; Somatic afferent; Splanchnic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HINDLIMB; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FOOT; HINDLIMB; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0033022698     PISSN: 01651838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1838(98)00144-1     Document Type: Article

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