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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2016

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Won-Mo Jung, Woosun Shim, Taehyung Lee, Hi-Joon Park, Yeonhee Ryu, Florian Beissner, Younbyoung Chae

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Psychophysical responses to needling depth using ultrasound imaging.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025
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  7. When sng meets acupuncture -- a paradigm-shift biomarker for translational research.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2025
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  17. Therapeutic Sensations: A New Unifying Concept.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Won-Mo JungAcupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Seoul, South Korea.
Woosun ShimAcupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Seoul, South Korea.
Taehyung LeeAcupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Seoul, South Korea.
Hi-Joon ParkAcupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Seoul, South Korea.
Yeonhee RyuAcupuncture, Moxibustion and Meridian Research Center, Division of Standard Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine Daejeon, South Korea.
Florian BeissnerSomatosensory and Autonomic Therapy Research, Institute for Neuroradiology, Hannover Medical School Hannover, Germany.
Younbyoung ChaeAcupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Seoul, South Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acupuncture uses needles to stimulate certain parts of the body, inducing a specific sensation, termed

Indexed as

acupuncturebodily sensationDeQimeridianspatial information

Identifiers

PMID27807402
PMCPMC5069343

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