Acupuncture increases cerebral glucose metabolism in human vascular dementia

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1029-1037

  Huang, Yong ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Htut, Win Moe ^a   Lai, Xinsheng ^b   Wik, Gustav ^c  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Brain; Dementia; Glucose metabolism; PET; Stroke

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

EID: 34347371227     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450600936825     Document Type: Article

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