The effect of electrical stimulation of the pudendal nerve on sciatic nerve blood flow in animals

Acupuncture in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 145-148

  Inoue, Motohiro ^a   Hojo, Tatsuya ^b   Nakajima, Miwa ^a   Kitakoji, Hiroshi ^a   Itoi, Megumi ^a   Katsumi, Yasukazu ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Electrical stimulation; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Pudendal nerve; Rat; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART RATE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 55049121479     PISSN: 09645284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/aim.26.3.145     Document Type: Article

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