Testing the nanoparticle-allostatic cross-adaptation-sensitization model for homeopathic remedy effects

Homeopathy

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-81

  Bell, Iris R ^a,b   Koithan, Mary ^a,b   Brooks, Audrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Complex adaptive systems; Cross sensitization; Homeopathy; Metaplasticity; Nanoparticle; Physiological stress response; Research design; Time dependent sensitization

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTOSE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYPROPYLENE; SILICON DIOXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ALLOSTASIS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FIBROMYALGIA; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NANOMEDICINE; NANOPARTICLE ALLOSTATIC CROSS ADAPTATION SENSITIZATION MODEL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PLACEBO EFFECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIZATION;

ALLOSTASIS; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; MATERIA MEDICA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84871911642     PISSN: 14754916     EISSN: 14764245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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