An in vivo mouse excisional wound model of scarless healing

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2292-2296

  Colwell, Amy S ^a   Krummel, Thomas M ^a   Longaker, Michael T ^a   Lorenz, H Peter ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HISTOLOGY; INDIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; INJURY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SCAR;

ANIMALS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; SKIN; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33745419573     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000219340.47232.eb     Document Type: Article

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