Promotive effects of far-infrared ray on full-thickness skin wound healing in rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 228, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 724-729

  Toyokawa, Hideyoshi ^a   Matsui, Yoichi ^a   Uhara, Junya ^a   Tsuchiya, Hideto ^a   Teshima, Shigeru ^a   Nakanishi, Hideki ^a   Kwon, A Hon ^a   Azuma, Yoshihiko ^b   Nagaoka, Tetsuo ^c   Ogawa, Takafumi ^c   Kamiyama, Yasuo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sagano Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c Kyodo Byori   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen; Far infrared ray; Fibroblast; Transforming growth factor 1; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INFILTRATION; FIBROBLAST; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN INJURY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ABIES; ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROBLASTS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED RAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0037828873     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020322800612     Document Type: Article

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