Effects of short-term relaxation therapy on systolic time intervals in young healthy volunteers

Biomedicine (India)

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-131

  Pal, G K ^a   Ganesh, Venkata ^b   Pal, Pravati ^a   Karthik, S ^a   Amudharaj, D ^a  

^a Department of Physiology ^*  (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Relaxation therapy; Systolic time intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865359509     PISSN: 09702067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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