Efficacy of Topical Application of Alcoholic Extract of Yarrow in the Healing Process of Experimental Burn Wounds in Rabbit

Comparative Clinical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-181

  Jalali, Farnood Shokouhi Sabet ^a   Tajik, Hossein ^a   Hadian, Mojtaba ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alcoholic; Burn; Extract; Microbiology; Rabbit; Yarrow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859110254     PISSN: 16185641     EISSN: 1618565X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00580-010-1081-7     Document Type: Article

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