title: Surgical wound healing in radio-tagged adult Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus held on different substrata.
abstract: Radio-tagged adult Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus held in a raceway with Plexiglas-lined walls and bottom healed more slowly and retained sutures longer than fish held in an all-concrete raceway or one with Plexiglas walls and a cobble-lined bottom. On all substrata, healing depended on when sutures were lost, and fish that lost their sutures in <14 days post-surgery healed faster than those that kept sutures longer. Long-term suture retention led to tissue trauma, infection and poor survival.
authors.affiliation: U. S. Geological Survey, Western Fisheries Research Centre, Columbia River Research Laboratory, 5501 Cook-Underwood Road, Cook, WA 98605, USA. mmesa@usgs.gov
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mesa
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Magie
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Copeland
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Christiansen
mesh_terms: D000823:Animal Identification Systems / Q000592:standards; D000818:Animals; D006799:Housing, Animal / Q000592:standards; D007798:Lampreys / Q000502:physiology*; D045483:Rivers; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013537:Sutures / Q000662:veterinary; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*