Cutaneous wounds heal more slowly in elderly males than in elderly females, suggesting a role for sex hormones in the healing process. Indeed, androgen/androgen receptor (AR) signaling has been shown to inhibit cutaneous wound healing. AR is expressed in several cell types in healing skin, including keratinocytes, dermal fibroblasts, and infiltrating macrophages, but the exact role of androgen/...

BACKGROUND Wound healing represents a dynamic process involving directional migration of different cell types. Chemokines, a family of chemoattractive proteins, have been suggested to be key players in cell-to-cell communication and essential for directed migration of structural cells. Today, the role of the chemokine network in cutaneous wound healing is not fully understood. Unraveling the ch...

Dogs with cutaneous wound were selected and randomly divided into two groups, to study the efficacy of fish scales extracted collagen biocasings on cutaneous wound healing. The wounds in both groups of dogs were protected with sterile external bandage after cleaning with normal saline to prevent infection. The efficacy of biocasings on wound healing was studied based on gross, physiological, he...

© 2002 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington. All Rights Reserved. Back to Top Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Clinical Review Criteria Wound Care Treatments  Autologous Platelet Derived Wound Healing Factors for Non Healing Cutaneous Wounds (Procuren)  Electrical Stimulation and Electromagnetic Therapy  Low Frequency, Noncontact, Nonthermal Ultrasound Wound Therapy  Mag...

OBJECTIVE Autologous platelet rich plasma is an advanced wound therapy used in hard-to-heal acute and chronic wounds. To better understand the use and clinical outcomes of the therapy, a systematic review of the published literature in cutaneous wounds was performed. METHODS Electronic and hand searches for randomized controlled trials and comparative group studies using platelet rich plasma ...

clinical case reconstructed by Guido Majno (1975) from the Hippocratic records describes a wrestler who visits the iatreion (out-patient clinic) to be treated for a shoulder dislocation. With less invasive procedures no longer working to tighten the dislocation, the clinic adopts the drastic measure of inducing wound contraction by poking a hot needle through the skin of the armpit, and "in thi...

clinical case reconstructed by Guido Majno (1975) from the Hippocratic records describes a wrestler who visits the iatreion (out-patient clinic) to be treated for a shoulder dislocation. With less invasive procedures no longer working to tighten the dislocation, the clinic adopts the drastic measure of inducing wound contraction by poking a hot needle through the skin of the armpit, and "in thi...

clinical case reconstructed by Guido Majno (1975) from the Hippocratic records describes a wrestler who visits the iatreion (out-patient clinic) to be treated for a shoulder dislocation. With less invasive procedures no longer working to tighten the dislocation, the clinic adopts the drastic measure of inducing wound contraction by poking a hot needle through the skin of the armpit, and "in thi...

Treatment of wounds is very important and was subject of different investigations. In this regard, natural substance plays crucial role as complementary medicine. Various studies reported that aloe vera has useful effects on wounds especially cutaneous wounds healing. Therefore in the current review, we examined the effect of aloe vera on cutaneous wound healing and concluded that although aloe...

Dear Editors, We read with great interest the article by Ahanger et al. entitled ‘Pro-healing effects of bilirubin in open excisionwound model in rats’ (1). In this study, the authors hypothesised that bilirubin, which is known as a strong antioxidant, could be of potential therapeutic value in wound healing in open excision wound models in rats. To validate their hypothesis, they made a full-t...