Nutrition and wound healing

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Arnold, Meghan ^a   Barbul, Adrian ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA HYDROXY BETA METHYLBUTYRATE; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBOHYDRATE; COPPER; FAT; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMINE; INSULIN; IRON; MAGNESIUM; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PROTEIN; RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN K GROUP; ZINC; VITAMIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; CATABOLISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEEDING; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPOLYSIS; MALNUTRITION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARGININE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; MICRONUTRIENTS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; VITAMINS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33745514695     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000225432.17501.6c     Document Type: Review

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