...F. Vaxman; S. Olender; A. Lambert; G. Nisand; M. Aprahamian; J.F Bruch; E. Didier; P. Volkmar; J.F Grenier This study aimed at testing human skin wound healing improvement by a 21-day supplementation of 1.0 g ascorbic acid (AA) and 0.2 g pantothenic acid (PA). 49 patients undergoing surgery...

...M.A.F. Hussein The pattern of skin cleavage lines in adult albino rats is described. Their direction in the skin of the trunk and limbs is circumferential around the long axes of these parts, although they may be longitudinal in the mid-sagittal dorsal skin of the trunk in animals with strongly...

...Dolores C. García-Olmo; D. García-Olmo; J. Ontañón; M. Atiénzar; María García-Rivas The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between the effects of spleen transplantation on the acceptance of a skin allograft from the same donor and the detection of donor chimerism in recipient...

... in the development of inguinal hernia. In particular an altered ratio of collagen types I and III with an increase in collagen type III has been claimed to reduce the mechanical strength of connective tissues. Therefore, we investigated the content of collagen types I and III in the skin of patients with incisional...

.... In the present study, we determined collagen type I and type III in the skin of adult patients with indirect and direct inguinal hernias by both immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis. In addition, we quantified the immunohistochemical expression of fibronectin and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1...

...A. Lanas; A. García-Gonzalez; F. Esteva; E. Piazuelo; P. Jimenez; J.R. Morandeira Fibroblasts (FIB) play an important role in the wound-healing process. It is not known whether human skin and gastric FIB show different responses to regulatory compounds. In this study, we have examined the collagen...