title: Electrochemical healing similarities between animals and plants.
abstract: A brief summary of the major results in enhanced wound healing by electrolysis in animals and humans is presented along with the results of enhanced growth by electrolysis in plants. Hypotheses of normal and enhanced wound healing in animal and plants are reviewed. A comparison of the experimental results indicates strong similarities in the optimum magnitude and polarity of the externally applied galvanic current in animals and plants. There are, however, differences in optimum current densities, There are strong similarities in animal and plant electropotential changes during normal healing.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004572:Electrolysis / Q000379:methods; D050723:Fractures, Bone; D006801:Humans; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D011817:Rabbits; D014945:Wound Healing
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