Effect of moxibustion stimulation of various skin areas on cortical cerebral blood flow in anesthetized rats

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 611-621

  Uchida, Sae ^a,b   Suzuki, Atsuko ^a,b   Kagitani, Fusako ^b   Nakajima, Kaori ^b   Aikawa, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral Blood Flow; Cerebral Blood Flow Increase; Cutaneous Segments; Intracranial Cholinergic Vasodilative System; Moxibustion; Rat; Somatic Afferent

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; CERVICAL SPINE; CHEEK; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FACIAL NERVE; FOREFOOT; HINDLIMB; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PARIETAL LOBE; RAT; SKIN; SKIN STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DRUG EFFECT; INNERVATION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 1542568479     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X03001247     Document Type: Article

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