Effect of imiquimod on partial-thickness burns

Burns

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-108

  de Mesquita, Charles Jean G ^a   Leite, Jose A D ^a   Fechine, Francisco V ^a   Rocha, Jose L de C ^a   Leite, Janaina G S ^b   Filho, Jose A D Leite ^b   Filho, Romulo A Barbosa ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Christus Medical School   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burns; Collagen; Imiquimod; Immunomodulator; Inflammation; Rats

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; IMIQUIMOD; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG STRUCTURE; EPITHELIZATION; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; KELOID; MALE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; RAT; STAINING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WISTAR RAT; WOUND;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AMINOQUINOLINES; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; BURNS; CICATRIX; COLLAGEN; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 72149132256     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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