Introduction: The Damage Control Orthopedics (DCO) with external fixation is the most valuable aid for a surgeon, when a quick and efficient solution to war and civil injuries to the extremities and pelvis is needed. Material and methods: 2462 wounded patients were analyzed in this study. These patients sustained injuries to the extremities, abdomen, thorax and head, and received primary surgic...

Production of wound ethylene was investigated in rib segments excised from flower buds of morning-glory (Ipomoea tricolor). Segments of the ribs were cut from buds 2 days before flower opening, floated overnight on 5 mm KCl solution, and transferred to agar the following morning. These immature segments evolved only a small quantity of ethylene during incubation on agar, with most of the produc...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to establish if broad-spectrum or infrared (IR) light in combination with laser therapy can assist phototherapy and accelerate cell proliferation to improve the rate of wound healing. BACKGROUND DATA The effect of laser light may be partly or completely reduced by broad-spectrum light. There are few studies that investigate the benefit or detriment of combining lase...

PURPOSE This study investigated ocular surface components that contribute to matrix-metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 found in tears following corneal epithelial wounding. METHODS Laboratory short-haired cats underwent corneal epithelial debridement in one randomly chosen eye (n = 18). Eye-flush tears were collected at baseline and during various healing stages. Procedural control eyes (ide...

Fig. 1. Wound ethylene production at 20C by tomato pericarp disks cut from the blossom, equator, and stem regions of mature green fruit. Data are means The physiology of lightly processed (LP) fruits and vegetables is essentially the physiology of wounded tissue. This type of processing, involving abrasion, peeling, slicing, chopping, or shredding, differs from traditional processing in that th...

Wounded leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana show transient immunity to Botrytis cinerea, the causal agent of grey mould. Using a fluorescent probe, histological staining and a luminol assay, we now show that reactive oxygen species (ROS), including H(2)O(2) and O(2) (-), are produced within minutes after wounding. ROS are formed in the absence of the enzymes Atrboh D and F and can be prevented by di...

Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging provides a non-invasive and non-destructive means with which to measure photosynthesis. This technique has been used, in combination with 14CO2 feeding, to study the spatial and temporal changes in source-sink relationships which occur in mechanically wounded leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Twenty-four hours after wounding, cells proximal to the wound margin sho...

Phytophthora megakarya (Pmeg) and Phytophthora palmivora (Ppal) cause black pod rot of Theobroma cacao L. (cacao). Of these two clade 4 species, Pmeg is more virulent and is displacing Ppal in many cacao production areas in Africa. Symptoms and species specific sporangia production were compared when the two species were co-inoculated onto pod pieces in staggered 24 h time intervals. Pmeg spora...

This study investigated the antioxidant enzyme activities in skin mucus of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.) at 3 and 7 days post-wounding (dpw). The expression levels genes that encode stress proteins (grp170, grp94, grp75, sod hsp70) regeneration-related (tf, igf1, tgfb1, der1, apo1 erdj3) also were determined. Mucus samples obtained from left right flanks non-wounded wounded fish. In both...

Wounds appear throughout the writings of Jean-Louis Chrétien and Gregory Nyssa. Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description prayer as a “wounded word,” phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension phenomenal life which contingency groundlessness finitude gifts. Gregory, turn, draws upon language wounding Song Songs soul's ascent God. The first two parts this essay bring li...