Waon therapy: Soothing warmth therapy

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 301-304

  Tel, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTERY DISEASE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CARDIOMEGALY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIVATION DISORDER; SAUNA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; VASODILATATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIATHERMY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; METHODOLOGY;

DIATHERMY; DISEASE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; STEAM BATH;

EID: 34547805307     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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