Human acupuncture points mapped in rats are associated with excitable muscle/skin-nerve complexes with enriched nerve endings

Brain Research

Volumn 1012, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 154-159

  Li, Ai Hui ^a   Zhang, Jun Ming ^b   Xie, Yi Kuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture point; Muscle skin nerve complex; Nerve ending; Receptive field; Sensory system; Somatic and visceral afferents

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROFILAMENT; NERVE ENDING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE ENDINGS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN;

EID: 2442503245     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.04.009     Document Type: Article

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