Acupuncture stimulation at Sanyinjiao: Effect on the sodium pertechnetate bioavailability in rats

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 977-986

  de Souza, Deise Elisabete ^a,b   Senna Fernandes, Vasco ^a,b   Brito, Lavínia de Carvalho ^a   de Souza, Raphael Sancho Sisley ^a   França, Daisy ^a,b   Manoel, Cristiano Viana ^a   de Almeida, Marcela Ceciliano ^a   Bernardo Filho, Mario ^a,b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Academia Brasileira de Ciencias   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Bioavailability; Physiological Responses; Rat; Sanyinjiao (SP6); Technetium 99m

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING ORGAN SYSTEMS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ISOLATED ORGAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RAT; THERAPY EFFECT; WISTAR RAT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; MALE; PANCREAS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; SPLEEN;

EID: 37849015516     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X07005442     Document Type: Article

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