Chitosan-alginate PEC membrane as a wound dressing: Assessment of incisional wound healing

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 610-618

  Wang, Lishan ^a   Khor, Eugene ^a   Wee, Aileen ^b   Lim, Lee Yong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alginate; Biocompatibility; Chitosan; Polyelectrolyte complex; Wound dressing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; COLLAGEN;

EPIDERMAL ARCHITECTURE;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

ALGINIC ACID; CHITOSAN; OPSITE; POLYELECTROLYTE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ASSAY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL GROWTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKIN INCISION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SUSPENSION; THICKNESS; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; BANDAGES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; FIBROBLASTS; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MICE; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; WATER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0036379145     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.10382     Document Type: Article

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