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The quantitative and qualitative impairment of wound healing by adriamycin
Author(s) -
Devereux Dennis F.,
Thibault Larry,
Boretos John,
Brennan Murray F.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197903)43:3<932::aid-cncr2820430322>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - medicine , wound healing , dorsum , breaking strength , surgery , anatomy , materials science , composite material
Clinical impression suggests that Adriamycin (ADR) interferes with wound healing. To examine the effects of ADR on wound healing, male Fischer rats were subjected to a dorsal, midline, full‐thickness longitudinal incision (day 0). Wound clips were removed on day +7. Twenty animals per group were given intravenous ADR on day −7, day 0, day +3 and day +7. Twenty animals served as non‐treated, wounded controls (C). Five animals/group were sacrificed on days +7, +14 and +21, at which time two 9.5 mm wide strips were taken from each animal perpendicular to the wound axis and submitted for wound breaking strength (WBS) measurements and load‐extension curve analysis. WBS differed most markedly at Day 21 between C(1671 ± 59g) and ADR day −7(1360 + 71 g) p < 0.01; C and ADR day 0 (1051 ± 108 g) p < 0.001; C and ADR day +3(1134 ± 176 g) p < 0.02. No difference existed between C and day +7 (1790 ± 153 g). A point of inflection always occurred between 55–60% elongation in ADR treated animals only. This portion of the curve has been previously shown to represent collagen content. It is concluded that perioperative ADR administration (day −7 through day +3) significantly and substantially impairs skin wound healing in the rat. A form of collagen yielding underlies and may contribute to this defect. Cancer 43:932–938, 1979.