Ovarian blood flow responses to electro-acupuncture stimulation at different frequencies and intensities in anaesthetized rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 50-56

  Stener Victorin, Elisabet ^a   Kobayashi, Rie ^b   Kurosawa, Mieko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electro acupuncture; Frequency; Intensity; Muscle; Ovarian blood flow; Ovarian sympathetic nerve

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0242495280     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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