This study determined: (a) if acupuncture stimulation at a traditional site might modulate ongoing EEG as compared with stimulation of a control site; (b) if high-frequency vs. low-frequency stimulation could exert differential effects of acupuncture; (c) if the observed effects of acupuncture were specific to certain EEG bands; and (d) if the acupuncture effect could be isolated at a specific ...

foam injection is widely applied in amounts of fields to drilling, production, and formation protection. sometimes, the application result is disappointing, which is caused by the failure of bubble generation in foam flooding. therefore, it is necessary to seek ways for improving the performance of foam injection. an increased disturbance to the stratum, like the vibration caused by a seismic o...

4 Costanza Burattini*, Giulia Battistini, Francesco Tamagnini, Giorgio Aicardi 5 Department for Life Quality Studies and Interdepartmental Centre “Luigi Galvani” for the Study 6 of Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. 7 8 Author contributions 9 C.B.: conception and design of the experiments, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, 10 prep...

To evaluate the potential of stimulation techniques to suppress epileptic activity, human studies are limited regarding the analysis of stimulation parameters. Animal models can serve for a systematic study of the efficacy of different stimulation paradigms. Earlier studies demonstrated that in animal models of kindling, short term low frequency stimulation (LFS) applied during the kindling pro...

The purpose of the study was to examine the time course of neuromuscular fatigue components during a low-frequency electrostimulation (ES) session. Three bouts of 17 trains of stimulation at 30 HZ (4 s on, 6 s off) were used to electrically induce fatigue in the plantar flexor muscles. Before and after every 17-train bout, torque, electromyographic activity [expressed as root mean square (RMS) ...

The altered metabolic state after a spinal cord injury compromises systemic glucose regulation. Skeletal muscle atrophies and transforms into fast, glycolytic, and insulin-resistant tissue. Osteoporosis is common after spinal cord injury and limits the ability to exercise paralyzed muscle. We used a novel approach to study the acute effect of two frequencies of stimulation (20 and 5 Hz) on musc...