Simvastatin improves the healing of infected skin wounds of rats

Acta Cirurgica Brasileira

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 57-63

  Do Rego, Amália Cínthia Meneses ^a   Araújo Filho, Irami ^a   Damasceno, Bolívar P G L ^a   Egito, Eryvaldo Sócrates Tabosa ^a   Da Silveira, Ivanaldo Amâncio ^a   Brandão Neto, José ^a   Medeiros, Aldo Cunha ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Inflammation; Skin; Statin; Wistar rat; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; SIMVASTATIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL INFILTRATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG MECHANISM; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROEMULSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RAT; SKIN INJURY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34248374701     PISSN: 01028650     EISSN: 16782674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-86502007000700012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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