The effect of intercessory prayer on wound healing in nonhuman primates

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 42-48

  Lesniak, Karen T ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GROOMING; HEMATOCRIT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL HEALING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FAITH HEALING; GALAGO; HUMANS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPTOPHAN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33751111922     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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