Electrical impedance along connective tissue planes associated with acupuncture meridians

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ahn, Andrew C ^a   Wu, Junru ^b   Badger, Gary J ^c   Hammerschlag, Richard ^d   Langevin, Helene M ^e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OREGON COLLEGE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MUSCLE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERICARDIUM; SPLEEN; TISSUE TYPES; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 25444498300     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-5-10     Document Type: Article

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