Altered Impedance of Ear Acupuncture Point MT2 in Breast Cancer Patients: A Preliminary Observation.

Yine Hu, Huayuan Yang, Pin Wang, Tangyi Liu, Wenchao Tang

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed

1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

Low-level laser treatment applied at auriculotherapy points to reduce postoperative pain in third molar surgery: A randomized, controlled, single-blinded study.PloS one · 2018
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Evaluation of low-level laser at auriculotherapy points to reduce postoperative pain in inferior third molar surgery: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2016
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Mapping of Spatiotemporal Auricular Electrophysiological Signals Reveals Human Biometric Clusters.Advanced healthcare materials · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yine HuLaboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Engineering, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China.

Huayuan YangLaboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Engineering, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China.

Pin WangAnhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 103 Meishan Road, Hefei 230038, China.

Tangyi LiuLaboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Engineering, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China.

Wenchao TangLaboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Engineering, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, China.

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNAnhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin impedance at acupuncture points (APs) has been used as a diagnostic aid for more than 50 years. In this study, we have a diagnostic tool (JXT-2008) to measure the skin impedance of ear APs of 30 breast cancer patients and the corresponding skin impedance of ear APs of 30 healthy humans, and then we compared these changes in ear AP impedance in breast cancer patients and healthy individuals.

Identifiers

PMID26504483

DOI10.1155/2015/909246

PMCPMC4609471

OpenAlexW1923538248

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