Topical amiloride ointment accelerates healing of mechanical skin ulcers in albino rabbits and patients

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-107

  Gupta, Bhavyesh ^a,b   Arora, P ^a   Singh, V S ^a   Bhargava, S K ^a  

^a LLRM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Institute of Dental Studies and Technologies   (India)

Author keywords

Amiloride; Lateral electric fields; Skin ulcers; Urokinase type plasminogen activator; Wound repair

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; DRUG VEHICLE; LIQUID PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; OINTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RABBIT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN ULCER; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCEROGENESIS; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; BANDAGES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OINTMENTS; RABBITS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN ULCER; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646267418     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2006.28.2.977841     Document Type: Article

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