Superficial topography of wound: A determinant of underlying biological events?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 525-528

  Farahani, Ramin Mostofi Zadeh ^a   Aminabadi, Naser Asl ^a   Kloth, Luther C ^b  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical strain; Transforming growth factor ; Wound geometry

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SKIN INJURY; TOPOGRAPHY; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 38749138867     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.05.056     Document Type: Article

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