Rat models of skin wound healing: A review

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 591-599

  Dorsett Martin, Wanda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACEPROMAZINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; ETHER; FLUORENE; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; METHOXYFLURANE; NARCOTIC AGENT; PENTOBARBITAL; THIOPENTAL; XYLAZINE;

AGING; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EPITHELIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STANDARDIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 9644263852     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1067-1927.2004.12601.x     Document Type: Review

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