Waon therapy for cardiovascular disease: Innovative Therapy for the 21st Century

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 617-621

  Miyata, Masaaki ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Nitric oxide; Peripheral arterial disease; Waon therapy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DRINKING WATER; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY DISEASE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; FOOT ULCER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUNG RESISTANCE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELAXATION SENSATION; REVIEW; SWEATING; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; ULCER HEALING; UPREGULATION; WAON THERAPY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; ISCHEMIA; MICE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STEAM BATH;

EID: 77950653993     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0939     Document Type: Review

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