Effect of electroacupuncture on rat ischemic brain injury: Importance of stimulation duration

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Fei ^a,b   Guo, Jingchun ^c   Cheng, Jieshi ^c   Wu, Gencheng ^c   Xia, Ying ^d,e  

^a Shanghai Research Center for Acupuncture and Meridians   (China)

^b Gongli Hospital   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 84878676429     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/878521     Document Type: Article

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