Pretreatment with repeated electroacupuncture attenuates transient focal cerebral ischemic injury in rats

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 108-111

  Xiong, Lize ^a   Lu, Zhihong ^a   Hou, Lichao ^a   Zheng, Hengxing ^a   Zhu, Zhenghua ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Chen, Shaoyang ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia, focal; Electroacupuncture; Ischemic preconditioning

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; SUTURE MATERIAL; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REPERFUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; STAINING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037257028     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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