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20633475

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
Blood plexuses are characteristic anatomical features of acupuncture points (APs). We developed an optical technique using diffusive light illumination to increase the brightened area of skin for observation of the blood plexuses in skin. We found that the blood plexuses were coiled blood vessels which came out of the perforations in the fascia of muscle. The coiled vessels could be straightened by stretching the skin. We observed a series of blood plexuses at the putative APs along the left and right kidney meridian lines in the abdominal skin of rats. In addition, the locations of the plexuses on the muscle fascia were just above the putative acupuncture muscle channels along the kidney meridians. Furthermore, immunohistochemical analysis of the skin specimens of the plexuses revealed its neurovascular bundle nature as expected from known anatomical features of the APs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
2005-2901
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
56-65
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Observation of coiled blood plexus in rat skin with diffusive light illumination.
pubmed:affiliation
Biomedical Physics Laboratory, Frontier Physics Research Division, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't