Effects of electroacupuncture on gastric motility and heart rate variability in conscious rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 91-98

  Imai, Kenji ^a   Ariga, Hajime ^a   Chen, Cindy ^a   Mantyh, Christopher ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Takahashi, Toku ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Parasympathetic nerve; ST 25; ST 36; Sympathetic nerve

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LEG; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STOMACH MOTILITY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEART; HEART RATE; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 38349051116     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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