Assessment of the short-term effects of a permanent magnet on normal skin blood circulation via laser-Doppler flowmetry

Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-12

  Mayrovitz, Harvey N ^a   Groseclose, Edye E ^b   Sims, Nancy ^c  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Broward Hospital District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL MOTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMERUS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0036892701     PISSN: 10950656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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