Managing chronic wounds with Acticoat Moisture ControlTM
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چکیده
Chronic wounds fail to progress through the main phases associated with normal wound healing. One of the main suggestions for this is they become trapped in a chronic inflammatory state (Ennis and Meneses, 2000). Dysfunction at a cellular level has been associated with this, including problems in the modulation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the availability of growth factors (Trengrove et al, 1999; Krishnamoorthy et al, 2001).
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