Ten years evidence-based high-tech acupuncture part 3: A short review of animal experiments

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-155

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Laser acupuncture; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BISPECTRAL INDEX; DOG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; LASER; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEEP; STIMULATION; SWINE;

EID: 77952183928     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nen034     Document Type: Review

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