Delayed cutaneous wound healing in aged rats compared to younger ones

International Wound Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 478-487

  Soybir, Onur C ^a   Gürdal, Sibel Ö ^b   Oran, Ebru Ş ^b   Tülübaş, Feti ^b   Yüksel, Meral ^c   Akyildiz, Ayşenur I ^d   Bilir, Ayhan ^e   Soybir, Gürsel R ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Taksim Education and Research   (Turkey)

^e ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Free oxygen radicals; Male aged rats; Testosterone; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL INFILTRATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR; SKIN INJURY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROBLASTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN; TESTOSTERONE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84866546741     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-481X.2011.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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