Electric fields and proliferation in a chronic wound model

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 450-457

  Goldman, Robert ^a   Pollack, Solomon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division; Electric stimulation therapy; Fibroblasts; Skin; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; FIBROBLASTS;

CELL DIVISIONS; CHRONIC WOUNDS; DECUBITUS; DERMAL EQUIVALENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIVALENT MATRICES; HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS; LEG ULCERS; WOUND HEALING;

DNA;

HIATUS;

COLLAGEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DNA; SILVER CHLORIDE; SILVER DERIVATIVE; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DECUBITUS; DIFFUSION CHAMBER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FIBROBLAST; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; INJURY; LEG ULCER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; DNA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE ULCER; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030329437     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(1996)17:6<450::AID-BEM4>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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