Efficacy of gaseous nitric oxide in the treatment of skin and soft tissue infections

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 368-377

  Ghaffari, Abdi ^a   Jalili, Reza ^a   Ghaffari, Mazyar ^b   Miller, Chris ^a   Ghahary, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; PROCOLLAGEN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIZATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN CELL; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN SURFACE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; GASES; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; NITRIC OXIDE; PILOT PROJECTS; RABBITS; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 34249314802     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2007.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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