Diabetes

Research on diabetes described by scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 29th, 2008

"The incidence and prevalence of chronic and diabetic wounds are increasing and clinical treatments to tackle these epidemics are still insufficient. In this study, we tested the ability of freeze-dried platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and an allogenic micronized acellular dermal matrix alone and in combination to modulate diabetic wound healing," scientists in the United States report.

"Therapeutic materials were applied to 1.0 cm(2) excisional wounds on genetically diabetic (db/db) mice. Wound-healing kinetics and new tissue formation were studied at 9 and 21 days posttreatment. Quantitative immunohistochemistry was used to study vascularity and cellular proliferation (days...

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