Effects of the application of Aloe vera (L.) and microcurrent on the healing of wounds surgically induced in Wistar rats

Acta Cirurgica Brasileira

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-155

  Mendonça, Fernanda Aparecida Sampaio ^a   Passarini Jr , José Roberto ^a   Esquisatto, Marcelo Augusto Marretto ^a   Mendonça, Josué Sampaio ^b   Franchini, Cristina Cruz ^a   Dos Santos, Glaucia Maria Tech ^a  

^a CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO HERMÍNIO OMETTO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital São Lucas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aloe; Electric stimulation; Histology, Comparative; Rats; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA EXTRACT;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIZATION; FIBROBLAST; GEL; HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURGICAL WOUND; TISSUE REPAIR; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ALOE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 65749098018     PISSN: 01028650     EISSN: 16782674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-86502009000200013     Document Type: Article

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