Different modes of manual acupuncture stimulation differentially modulate cerebral blood flow velocity, arterial blood pressure and heart rate in human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 333, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 203-206

  Backer M ^a,b   Hammes, M G ^b   Valet, M ^b   Deppe, M ^c   Conrad, B ^b   Tolle T R ^b   Dobos, G ^a  

^a KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Cerebral activation; Somatocardiovascular reflex response; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ROTATION;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0037195541     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01109-6     Document Type: Article

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