Animal models for wound repair.
Progress in wound pharmacology is dependent on the availability of suitable animal wound models. All animal models try to reflect human wound healing problems. In acute models it is easier to achieve approximations to the clinical situation than in models for the chronic wound.
Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. jeff.davidson@vanderbilt.edu
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D014945:Wound Healing