Supplemental L-arginine enhances wound healing in diabetic rats

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 198-203

  Shi, Han Ping ^c   Most, Daniel ^c   Efron, David T ^c   Witte, Maria B ^a   Barbul, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; COLLAGEN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROXYPROLINE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; ORNITHINE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PROCOLLAGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; POLYDIPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN INCISION; STRENGTH; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; SUPPLEMENTATION; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARGINASE; ARGININE; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; CITRULLINE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HYDROXYPROLINE; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORNITHINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0038697697     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.2003.11308.x     Document Type: Article

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