INTRODUCTION Neuropathic pain is defined as pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system and is common after surgery. Neuropathic pain can persist without an obvious injury. In this study we aim to validate a murine chronic constriction injury model as a model for neuropathic pain research and determine if silk or catgut ligatures induced most s...

the sac, which, on being opened, was found to contain about a foot of very much congested small intestines with a large piece of omentum. The stricture being divided, the hernia could not bp returned with gentle manipulation owing to the swollen condition of the contents of the Sac; the omentum was therefore ligatured with catgut in two pieces close to the neck, cut off, and the stump returned ...

A prospective clinical trial examining the benefits of using an absorbable suture for the closure of scalp wounds, is described. One hundred wounds were included, of which 50 were closed with chromic catgut, and 50 were closed with silk. On examination 5 days later, there were no complications in either group. The advantages of using an absorbable suture material in children's scalp wounds are ...

Suture material used in abdominal surgery must have more or less antigenic properties so that during wound healing it could be destroyed by an immune response to rejection, which is known involve cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and macrophages. This, turn, can lead the development of aseptic peritonitis. Therefore, while planning experimental simulation peritonitis, we decided use catgut thread as stim...