Acupuncture accelerates delayed gastrointestinal transit after abdominal surgery in conscious rats

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 734-735

  Balestrini, Jose L ^a   Tsuchida, Daisuke ^a   Fukuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Takahashi, Toku ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; ILEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH MUSCLE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; ILEUS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444463486     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520510015719     Document Type: Article

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