Acupuncture's role in cardiovascular homeostasis

Current Research in Acupuncture

Volumn 9781461433576, Issue , 2013, Pages 457-486

  Li, Peng ^a   Tjen A Looi, Stephanie C ^a   Longhurst, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidromic stimulation; Arcuate nucleus; Coherence; Homeostasis; Nuclei raph ; Nucleus tractus solitaries; Renal nerve; Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Splanchnic nerve; Ventrolateral periaqueductal gray

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939780286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3357-6_15     Document Type: Chapter

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