RecombinantHumanPlatelet-derivedGrowthFactorEnhancesRepairofCutaneousFull-thicknessExcisionbyIncreasingthePhosphorylationofExtracellularSignal-regulatedKinaseinDiabeticRatCHENGBiao1LIUHongwei1FUXiaobing2SHENGZhiyong2SUNTongzhu2【Abstract】ObjectiveToinvestigatethepossiblesignalingmechanismsbywhichrecombinanthumanplatelet2derivedgrowthfactor(rhPDGF)acceleratedhealingofcutaneouswoundindiabeticrats
MethodsFourfull2thicknessskinwoundswereincisedinthebackof26maleWistardiabeticrats
Thewoundedratsweredividedinto3groups(7or8ratseachgroup)
Onegroupwithouttreatmentwasusedasacontrol,andtheother2groupsweretreatedwithrhPDGFatadoseof710Λg�cm2woundorvehicle(DMSO�019%NaCl,vol�vol1∶1)from1to14days
Thewoundhealingwasevaluatedbythemeasurementsofthewoundvolumeandarea
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