Manual acupuncture needle stimulation of the rat hindlimb activates groups I, II, III and IV single afferent nerve fibers in the dorsal spinal roots

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-155

  Kagitani, Fusako ^a,b,c   Uchida, Sae ^a,b   Hotta, Harumi ^a,b   Aikawa, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Voc Sch of Acupuncture/Judo Ther   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Conduction velocities; Rats; Single afferent nerve fiber; Spinal dorsal roots

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISSECTION; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; LAMINECTOMY; LATENT PERIOD; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUSCLE; NEEDLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROTATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SKIN; SPINAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HINDLIMB; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 28544439511     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: 0021521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.R2120     Document Type: Article

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