The effect of saffron (crocus sativus) extract for healing of second-degree burn wounds in rats

Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 190-195

  Khorasani, Ghasemali ^a   Hosseinimehr, Seyed Jalal ^a,b   Zamani, Peyman ^a   Ghasemi, Maryam ^a   Ahmadi, Amirhossein ^a  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Burn; Saffron; Silver sulfadiazine; Wound

Indexed keywords

CROCUS SATIVUS EXTRACT; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BURNS; CROCUS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILVER SULFADIAZINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58849111842     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: 18801293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.57.190     Document Type: Article

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