The effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on sympathetic skin response

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-28

  Olyaei, G R ^a,b   Talebian, S ^a   Hadian, M R ^a   Bagheri, H ^a   Momadjed, F ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL PHALANX; EFFERENT NERVE; ELBOW; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATENT PERIOD; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TIME; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 1042280331     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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