Scar prevention and cosmetically enhanced wound healing using relaxin

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1160, Issue , 2009, Pages 336-341

  Stewart, Dennis R ^a  

^a Corthera Inc ^*

Author keywords

Cosmetic; Pig; Relaxin; Scar; Wound

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; RELAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESTHETICS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFUSION PUMP; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; SKIN SCAR; SWINE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 64549162386     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03948.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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