Evaluation of the wound-healing activity of selected traditional medicinal plants from Peru

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-200

  Villegas, León F ^a   Fernández, Irma D ^a   Maldonado, Holger ^a   Torres, Rosa ^a   Zavaleta, Alfonso ^a   Vaisberg, Abraham J ^a   Hammond, Gerald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Peru; Traditional medicinal plants; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PERU; SMOOTH MUSCLE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0342602014     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(96)01500-0     Document Type: Article

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