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ArticleMedicines (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Gender Differences in Laser Acupuncture-Results of a Crossover Study with Green and Yellow Laser at the Ear Point Shenmen.

Daniela Litscher, Junying Wang, Gerhard Litscher, Guangzong Li, Peggy Bosch, Maurits van den Noort, Lu Wang

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Article in Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Effects of the New Lift-Thrust Operation in Laser Acupuncture Investigated by Thermal Imaging.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019
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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 at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Daniela LitscherTCM Research Center Graz, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria. daniela.litscher@medunigraz.at.
Junying WangInstitute of Acupuncture-Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700 Beijing, China. wjyanguning@aliyun.com.
Gerhard LitscherTCM Research Center Graz, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria. snshine@163.com.ORCID 0000-0001-6287-0130
Guangzong LiTCM Research Center Graz, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.
Peggy BoschDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 Nijmegen, The Netherlands. p.bosch@donders.ru.nl.
Maurits van den NoortResearch Group of Pain and Neuroscience, Kyung Hee University, 02447 Seoul, Korea. info@mauritsvandennoort.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0383-8733
Lu WangTCM Research Center Graz, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria. lu.wang@medunigraz.at.
Medical University of Graz · ATChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNKyung Hee University · KRRadboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

acupunctureblood pressureear acupuncturegendergreen laserheart rateheart rate variabilityShenmentemperatureyellow laser

Identifiers

PMID29543742
PMCPMC5874589
OpenAlexW2790686462

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Registered trials

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