Functional improvement by electro-acupuncture after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats

Neurological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 516-521

  Wang, S J ^a,b   Omori, N ^a   Li, F ^a   Jin, G ^a   Hamakawa, Y ^a   Sato, K ^a   Nagano, I ^a   Shoji, M ^a   Abe, K ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Dandong Hosp Traditional Chinese M   (China)

Author keywords

Electro acupuncture; Foot fault testing; Neurologic examination; Parallel bar testing; Transient middle cerebral artery occlusion; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL BAR TESTING; RAT; STROKE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0038503404     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201751     Document Type: Article

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