Gastrointestinal motility disorders and acupuncture
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Gastrointestinal motility disorders and acupuncture.
During the last decades, numerous studies have been performed to investigate the effects and mechanisms of acupuncture or electroacupuncture (EA) on gastrointestinal motility and patients with functional gastrointestinal diseases. A PubMed search was performed on this topic and all available studies published in English have been reviewed and evaluated. This review is organized based on the gas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Autonomic Neuroscience
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1566-0702
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.03.007