Surgical wound healing monitored repeatedly in vivo using electrical resistance of the epidermis

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 57-69

  Warren Spence, D ^a   Pomeranz, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

electrical resistance; epidermis; skin; wound healing

Indexed keywords

OHMIC CONTACTS; RATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGERY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; EPIDERMIS; IN-VIVO; OHMIC RESISTANCE; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; SILVER ELECTRODE; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSCUTANEOUS; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND HEALING;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EPIDERMIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 8944245002     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/17/2/001     Document Type: Article

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