The sex steroid precursor DHEA accelerates cutaneous wound healing via the estrogen receptors

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1053-1062

  Mills, Stuart J ^a   Ashworth, Jason J ^a   Gilliver, Stephen C ^a   Hardman, Matthew J ^a   Ashcroft, Gillian S ^a  

^a Faculty of Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DHEA; Estrogen; Inflammation; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MATRIX PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; AROMATASE; CYTOKINE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOGONADISM; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; ULCER; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

AGING; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33644792125     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[1053:PCICTM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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