Acupuncture accelerates delayed gastrointestinal transit after abdominal surgery in conscious rats.
Balestrini
Jose L
JL
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Tsuchida
Daisuke
D
Fukuda
Hiroyuki
H
Pappas
Theodore N
TN
Takahashi
Toku
T
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000818:Animals; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005772:Gastrointestinal Transit / Q000502:physiology*; D045823:Ileus / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D011336:Probability; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012016:Reference Values; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016896:Treatment Outcome