Acupuncture regulates leukocyte subpopulations in human peripheral blood

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-453

  Yamaguchi, Nobuo ^a,b   Takahashi, Takashi ^a   Sakuma, Masahiro ^a   Sugita, Toshiroh ^b   Uchikawa, Kumiko ^b   Sakaihara, Satoshi ^a   Kanda, Tsugiyasu ^a   Arai, Matsuo ^b   Kawakita, Kenji ^c  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ishikawa Natural Medicinal Products Research Center Fukubatake   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; CD positive cells; Cytokine expression; Eastern medicine; Leukocyte subset

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 38149010514     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nel107     Document Type: Article

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