De Qi, a threshold of the stimulus intensity, elicits the specific response of acupoints and intrinsic change of human brain to acupuncture

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tian, Dai Shi ^a   Xiong, Jin ^a   Pan, Qing ^a   Liu, Fang ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Xu, Sha Bei ^a   Huang, Guang Ying ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYOELECTRICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STIMULUS;

EID: 84928527472     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/914878     Document Type: Article

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