Extremely low frequency electromagnetic field and wound healing: Implication of cytokines as biological mediators

European Cytokine Network

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Pesce, Mirko ^a   Patruno, Antonia ^a   Speranza, Lorenza ^a   Reale, Marcella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

EMF; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; GAMMA INTERFERON; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RANTES; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; WOUND HEALING;

EMF; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84878047019     PISSN: 11485493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/ecn.2013.0332     Document Type: Article

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