Reducing the risk of skin pathologies in diabetics by using copper impregnated socks

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 883-886

  Borkow, Gadi ^a   Zatcoff, Richard C ^b   Gabbay, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Cupron Scientific ^*  (Israel)

^b Upstate Podiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER OXIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TEXTILE FIBER; TINEA PEDIS;

CLOTHING; COPPER; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SKIN DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70449706442     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.02.050     Document Type: Article

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