Inhibitory regulation of blood pressure by manual acupuncture in the anesthetized rat

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-182

  Friedemann, Thomas ^a   Li, Weimin ^a   Wang, Zhijun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Mean arterial blood pressure; Rats; Spinalization; Vagotomy

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGOTOMY;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN STEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VASODILATION;

EID: 70350574678     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2009.05.254     Document Type: Article

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