Honey: A biologic wound dressing

Wounds

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 141-151

  Molan, Peter ^a   Rhodes, Tanya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Rhodes and Assoc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology of wound healing; components of wound healing; honey; wound dressing

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

BANDAGE; BIOLOGICAL DRESSING; DRUG EFFECTS; HONEY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANDAGES; BIOLOGICAL DRESSINGS; HONEY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INFLAMMATION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84931064613     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: 19432704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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