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An in vitro assay of collagen fiber alignment by acupuncture needle rotation

BACKGROUND: During traditional acupuncture therapy, soft tissues attach to and wind around the acupuncture needle. To study this phenomenon in a controlled and quantitative setting, we performed acupuncture needling in vitro. METHODS: Acupuncture was simulated in vitro in three-dimensional, type I c...

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Autores principales: Julias, Margaret, Edgar, Lowell T, Buettner, Helen M, Shreiber, David I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2483714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18606012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-925X-7-19