BACKGROUND The most prevalent topical treatment for partial thickness burns is silver sulfadiazine 1% (SSD). Recent studies have shown that the healing of partial thickness burns is delayed with the use of SSD. One of the potential burn dressings is sucralfate. OBJECTIVES With this study the authors have aimed to analyze comparatively the effects of sucralfate and SSD on second degree burn wo...

Introduction: Burn is among the traumas that impose great physical and psychological damages to the injured people. Scientists still are looking for new treatments and methods for burn management that lack the defects of previous ones. Recently, the potential of probiotic bacteria for the treatment of skin disease and problems has been investigated. Considering that the effects of probiotics ar...

DMSO, Dog, Burn, Wound, Healing Burn injury is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Healing of burn wounds still remains a challenge to modern medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) on a second-degree burn wounds and compare it with that of silver sulfadiazine (SSD) 1% cream in dogs. A standard deep second-degree burn wound was pr...

introduction: this paper presents the results of a study on the effects of two differentdoses of low-power laser irradiation on healing of deep second degree burns. material and methods: 60 rats were randomly allocated to one of four groups. adeep second-degree burn was inflicted in each rat. in the control group (cg) burns remained untreated; in groups lg1 and lg2 the burns were irradiated wit...

The global changes in gene expression in injured murine skin were characterized following a second-degree scald burn. Dorsal skin was harvested from uninjured and from burned mice at 2 h and at 3 and 14 days following immersion in 65 degrees C water for 45 s. Gene expression was surveyed using an Affymetrix U74Av2 GeneChip, and patterns of gene expression were analyzed using hierarchical cluste...

Background: To investigated the effect of earthworm extract (EE) on deep second-degree burn wound healing process.

aloe vera is a tropical plant belonging to the liliaceae family. it has beneficialeffects in variety of diseases. the aim of this study was to formulate a topical cream from a. vera with wound burn healing effect and to perform its clinical trial. a total of 30 patients (20 males and 10 females in the age range of 20-50 years) with second degree burn wounds on their both hands were selected for...