Effect of aloe cream versus silver sulfadiazine for healing burn wounds in rats

Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatica

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-7

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

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aloe vera; Burn; Silver sulfadiazine; Wound

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ALOE VERA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EPITHELIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ALOE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BURNS; MALE; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILVER SULFADIAZINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77950589649     PISSN: 1330027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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