Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volume 8, Issue 4 (Jul/Aug) 2000

Editorial

The function of a journal

William J. Lindblad, Ph.D.
Pages 249-50

Original articles

An economic assessment of APLIGRAF (Graftskin) for the treatment of hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers

Warren H. Schonfeld, PhD; Kathleen F. Villa, MS; John M. Fastenau, MPH, RPh; Peter D. Mazonson, MD, MBA; Vincent Falanga, MD, FACP
Pages 251-7
The Lewin Group, 490 Second Street, Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94107

Fax: (415) 495-8969; Email: warren.schonfeld@lewin.com

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Randomized clinical trial of the effect of semi-occlusive dressings on the microflora and clinical outcome of acute facial wounds

David W. Thomas, FDS, PhD; C. Michael Hill, FDS, MDSc; Michael A.O. Lewis, FDS, PhD; Phil Stevens, PhD; Rita Walker; Andreas Von Der Weth, PhD
Pages 258-63
Department of Oral Surgery, Medicine & Pathology, Dental School, UWCM, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XY, UNITED KINGDOM

Fax: +44 (0) 2920-742442; Email: Thomasdw2@cardiff.ac.uk

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Simple biochemical markers to assess chronic wounds

Timothy J. James, MSc; Margaret A. Hughes, PhD; George W. Cherry, DPhil; Richard P. Taylor, PhD
Pages 264-9
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UNITED KINGDOM

Fax: +44 (0) 1865-220348

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In vitro fibroblast populated collagen lattices are not good models of in vivo clinical wound healing

M. Ann Kuhn, MD; Paul D. Smith, MD; Donald P. Hill, PharmD; Francis Ko, BS; Dessie D. Meltzer, BS, RN; Jerry S. Vande Berg, PhD; Martin C. Robson, MD
Pages 270-6
Institute of Tissue Regeneration, Repair and Rehabilitation, Bay Pines VA Medical Center, (151W), P.O. Box 5005, 10,000 Bay Pines Blvd., Bay Pines, FL 33744

Fax: (727) 319-1038; Email: mcrobson@earthlink.net

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Denervation retards but does not prevent toetip regeneration

Khalid S. Mohammad, MD; Daniel A. Neufeld, PhD
Pages 277-81
University of South Dakota School of Medicine, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069

Fax: (605) 677-6381; Email: dneufeld@usd.edu

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Matrix metalloproteinase production in regenerating axolotl spinal cord

Ellen A.G. Chernoff, PhD; Christina M. O'Hara, PhD; Debra Bauerle, BS; Michael Bowling, BS
Pages 282-91
Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132

Fax: (317) 274-2846; Email: echernof@iupui.edu

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Increase in wound breaking strength in rats in the presence of positively charged dextran beads correlates with an increase in endogenous transforming growth factor-ß1 and its receptor TGF-ßRI in close proximity to the wound

David Connors, BSc; David Gies, BA; Herrick Lin, PhD; Elliot Gruskin, PhD; Thomas A. Mustoe, MD; Nabil J. Tawil, PhD
Pages 292-303
Division of Plastic Surgery, Northwestern University School of Medicine, 707 North Fairbanks Court, Suite 811, Chicago, IL 60611-3042

Fax: (312) 908-5022; Email: tmoustoe@nmh.org

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Development of a chronic skin defect model and a study of cytokine secretion using the model

Li-Jun Zhou, MD; Ichiro Ono, MD
Pages 304-18
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Dermatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Hikarigaoka-1, Fukushima, 960-1295, JAPAN

Fax: +81 24-548-5412; Email: ichiro@fmu.ac.jp



Selected Wound Care Article Titles from Journal of WOCN

Page 319

News and comment

Page 320

Announcements

Page 321

Abstracts

Tenth Annual Meeting of the Wound Healing Society

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 4-6, 2000

Pages 322-345

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