Debriding effect of bromelain on firearm wounds in pigs

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 966-972

  Hu, Wei ^a   Wang, Ai Min ^a   Wu, Si Yu ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Liu, Shuai ^a   Gou, Yuan Bin ^a   Wang, Jian Min ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bromelain; Debridement; Emzymatic debridement; Firearm wound

Indexed keywords

BROMELAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; EXCISION; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BROMELAINS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE; THIGH; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 80054012379     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182028929     Document Type: Article

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