The electric field near human skin wounds declines with age and provides a noninvasive indicator of wound healing

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 645-655

  Nuccitelli, Richard ^a   Nuccitelli, Pamela ^a   Li, Changyi ^a   Narsing, Suman ^a   Pariser, David M ^b,c   Lui, Kaying ^a  

^a BIOELECTROMED CORP   (United States)

^b Virginia Clinical Research Inc   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INJURY; STRATUM CORNEUM; TISSUE SECTION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, HAIRLESS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052782975     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2011.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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