Photocrosslinkable chitosan as a dressing for wound occlusion and accelerator in healing process

Biomaterials

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 833-840

  Ishihara, Masayuki ^a   Nakanishi, Kuniaki ^a   Ono, Katsuaki ^a   Sato, Masato ^a   Kikuchi, Makoto ^a   Saito, Yoshio ^b   Yura, Hirofumi ^b   Matsui, Takemi ^a   Hattori, Hidemi ^a   Uenoyama, Maki ^a   Kurita, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NeTech Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitin; Chitosan; Photocrosslinking; Wound healing; Wound occlusion

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; HYDROGELS; IRRADIATION; SOLUTIONS; TISSUE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EPITHALIALIZATION; HEMOSTASIS;

BIOMATERIALS;

CHITOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMOSTASIS; HYDROGEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; SOLUBILITY; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLEEDING TIME; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HYDROGELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0036132348     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(01)00189-2     Document Type: Article

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