In vitro test of external Qigong

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Yount, Garret ^a   Solfvin, Jerry ^a   Moore, Dan ^a   Schlitz, Marilyn ^b   Reading, Melissa ^a   Aldape, Ken ^c   Qian, Yifang ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Institute of Noetic Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BREATHING EXERCISES; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STEM CELLS;

EID: 2442719013     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-4-5     Document Type: Article

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