Short-term electroacupuncture at Zusanli resets the arterial baroreflex neural arc toward lower sympathetic nerve activity

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Michikami, Daisaku ^a,b   Kamiya, Atsunori ^a   Kawada, Toru ^a   Inagaki, Masashi ^a   Shishido, Toshiaki ^a   Yamamoto, Kenta ^a,b   Ariumi, Hideto ^a,b   Iwase, Satoshi ^c   Sugenoya, Junichi ^c   Sunagawa, Kenji ^d   Sugimachi, Masaru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL DEVICES AGENCY   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial pressure; Equilibrium diagram

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VAGOTOMY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEEDBACK; RABBITS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33745726626     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00975.2005     Document Type: Article

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