L-arginine improves wound healing after trauma-hemorrhage by increasing collagen synthesis

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 162-168

  Wittmann, F ^a   Prix, N ^a   Mayr, S ^a   Angele, P ^a,b   Wichmann, M W ^a   Van Den Engel, N K ^a   Hernandez Richter, T ^a   Chaudry, I H ^a,c   Jauch, K W ^a   Angele, Martin K ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen I III; Hemorrhage; Hydroxyproline; Wound breaking strength; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; HYDROXYPROLINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOUND HEALING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLLAGEN; HEMORRHAGE; HYDROXYPROLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 24644476653     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000171529.06625.A8     Document Type: Article

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