Electro-acupuncture can alleviate the cerebral oedema of rat after ischemia

Brain Injury

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 895-900

  Zhang, Feng ^a,c   Wu, Yi ^a,b   Jia, Jie ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

apparent diffusion coefficient; diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960087186     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2011.581639     Document Type: Article

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