Radial Artery Hemodynamic Changes Related to Acupuncture

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 100-105

  Takayama, Shin ^a   Seki, Takashi ^a   Sugita, Norihiro ^b   Konno, Satoshi ^b   Arai, Hiroyuki ^b   Saijo, Yoshifumi ^b   Yambe, Tomoyuki ^b   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Yoshizawa, Makoto ^b   Nitta, Shin ichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; blood flow volume; radial artery; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REST;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIAL ARTERY; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 77949923084     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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