BACKGROUND Wound healing trajectories (percent healing vs time) provide a dynamic picture of the decrease in wound burden over the entire continuum of the healing process. Trajectories can be robustly compared using survival statistics methodology. Improvement in healing can be determined by shifting the curve from "impaired" healing toward "ideal" healing. Although this concept of shifting the...

background: leishmania is a significant health problem in many parts of the world. tumor necrosis factor (tnf) plays an essential role in leishmania major infections. objective: to study the pro-inflammatory cytokines and antioxidants in four groups of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients. methods: 39 patients were divided into four groups of: 1) active (acute phase of treatment); 2) non-healing (r...

background: the effect of several probiotics on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, including gastric ulcers is well reported. however, there are limited numbers of studies assessing the impact of bacillus subtilis (b. subtilis) probiotic on skin wound healing. m aterials and methods: fifty male rats were assigned to 3 different groups randomly. a 1.5 cm longitudinal full thickness incision...

background: maggot therapy has recently attracted considerable attention as an emerging debridement technique for wound healing. this study aimed to review the safety, effectiveness and economic evaluations of maggot debridement therapy for wound healing.   methods: to retrieve the relevant evidences, the cochrane library (until september 2014) was searched by appropriate keywords, using free t...

Self-healing resin systems have been discussed for over a decade and four different technologies had been proposed. However, little work on their application as composite matrices has been published although this was one of the stated aims of the earliest work in the field. This paper reports on the optimization of a solid-state self-healing resin system and its subsequent use as a matrix for h...

  Background: Maggot therapy has recently attracted considerable attention as an emerging debridement technique for wound healing. This study aimed to review the safety, effectiveness and economic evaluations of Maggot Debridement Therapy for wound healing.   Methods: To retrieve the relevant evidences, the Cochrane Library (until September 2014) was searched by appropriate ke...