Effect of needle puncture and electro-acupuncture on mucociliary clearance in anesthetized quails

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tai, Shusheng ^a   Wang, Jiulin ^b   Sun, Feng ^a   Xutian, Stevenson ^a   Wang, Tianshan ^a   King, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; PENTOBARBITAL; PROTEIN; MUCIN; PANCREATIC ELASTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; MUCOCILIARY TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; QUAIL; TRACHEA MUCOSA; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; VELOCITY; ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; EPITHELIUM; LUNG LAVAGE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; TRACHEA; TRACHEITIS;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EPITHELIUM; FUCOSE; MALE; MUCINS; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; NEEDLES; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PROTEINS; QUAIL; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; TRACHEA; TRACHEITIS;

EID: 33644918844     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-4     Document Type: Article

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