Thymosin β4 and a synthetic peptide containing its actin-binding domain promote dermal wound repair in db/db diabetic mice and in aged mice

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-24

  Philp, Deborah ^a   Badamchian, Mahnaz ^b   Scheremeta, Brooke ^a   Nguyen, Mychi ^a   Goldstein, Allan L ^b   Kleinman, Hynda K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b G W Univ Sch Med Hlth Sci   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COLLAGEN; LEUCYLLYSYLLYSYLTHREONYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC THYMOSIN BETA4; THYMOSIN BETA4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HYDROGEL; IMMOBILIZATION; KERATINOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SKIN INJURY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; THYMOSIN; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0037282380     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.2003.11105.x     Document Type: Article

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