Effect of various acupuncture treatment protocols upon sepsis in wistar rats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1026, Issue , 2004, Pages 251-256

  Scognamillo Szabo M V R ^a   Bechara, G H ^a   Ferreira, S H ^b   Cunha, F Q ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Cecal ligation and puncture; Neutrophil migration; Rats; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTAL LIGATION; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 10444233690     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1307.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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