Revisiting Castlio and Ferris-Swift's experiments on direct splenic stimulation in patients with acute infectious Disease

Journal of the American Osteopathic Association

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-79

  Noll, Donald R ^a,b   Johnson, Jane C ^a   Brooks, Joseph E ^c  

^a A T STILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDWARD VIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIRECT SPLENIC STIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FRIEDMAN TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; INFECTION; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; RETICULOCYTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MANIPULATION, OSTEOPATHIC; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPLEEN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 40349089860     PISSN: 00986151     EISSN: 00986151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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