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CONTRACTION IN WOUNDS MADE AT SHORT TIME INTERVALS
Author(s) -
CIJTHBERTSON A. M.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1959.tb06974.x
Subject(s) - medicine , wound closure , contraction (grammar) , wound healing , surgery , anesthesia
Summary Large skin wounds were made at staged time intervals on the opposite flanks of rats. evidence was found for the presence of substances liberated from the primary wound which influenced the rate of closure of a subsequent wound.