Can laser acupuncture reduce the increase of glucocorticoid metabolites in the faeces of sheep after mental stress?;Kann laserakupunktur den anstieg von glukokortikoidmetaboliten im kot von schafen nach stressbelastung vermindern?

Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Akupunktur

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-12

  Lexen, Evelyn ^a   Nissel, Helmut ^a,b,c   Gaggl, Gernot ^d   Grohmann, Karl Heinz ^d  

^a Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Akupunktur ^*

^b Vorstand der 2 Med Abteilung

^c Kaiserin Elisabeth Spital der Stadt Wien Akupunkturambulanz   (Austria)

^d Tierklinik Tierspital Korneuburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Cortisol; Laser; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; LASER ACUPUNCTURE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; STEROID METABOLISM;

EID: 34047183834     PISSN: 04156412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0415-6412-00237     Document Type: Article

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