Burn wound healing property of Cocos nucifera: An appraisal

Indian Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 144-146

  Srivastava, Pallavi ^a   Durgaprasad, S ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cocos nucifera; Epithelialization; Silver sulphadiazine; Wound contraction

Indexed keywords

COCONUT OIL; COCOS NUCIFERA EXTRACT; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOUND HEALING PROMOTING AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; COCONUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIZATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 53849105091     PISSN: 02537613     EISSN: 19983751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.43159     Document Type: Article

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