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Nobuari Takakura1, Miho Takayama2, Hiroyoshi Yajima2
1Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Tokyo 135-0063, Japan;
Journal of Integrative Medicine
|July 14, 2015
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