Sentences with phrase «chronic diabetic wounds»
A store - bought moisturizer could become a high - tech remedy for chronic diabetic wounds, thanks to the addition of specialized gold nanoparticles.
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More than one - fifth of the 27 million type 2 diabetics in the country have chronic, non-healing skin wounds, and many undergo amputation.
In addition, the chronic inflammation caused by the superantigens may also hinder wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers.
A handful of desperate Americans — struggling with treatment - resistant infections, diabetic ulcers or other chronic wounds — have journeyed to a clinic in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the «phage miracle cure.»
«Mature B lymphocytes accelerate the healing of diabetic ulcers, other skin injuries: Direct application of immune cells speeds and improves healing of acute and chronic wounds in animal models.»
«By decreasing ROS levels within a chronic wound in a diabetic mouse model, my lab was able to normalize conditions and heal the wound,» Martins - Green said.
Typical of Wolcott's patients is James Porter (not his real name), who, like many late - stage diabetics, suffered for years with chronic wounds on one of his legs.
«Using medicines that have been available for more than two decades, we think we have shown that this class of medicines holds great promise in effectively healing chronic wounds that are prevalent in diabetic and aged patients.»
Dr Smout said the discovery means it's possible the growth factor could be used to accelerate the healing of chronic wounds such as diabetic ulcers and to develop a vaccine against the worm - induced cancer.
BETHESDA, Md. (Nov. 15, 2012)-- Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for diabetics and are the cause of more than 80 percent of the lower leg amputations in these patients.
This study suggests that arginine and proline supplementation could offer new hope for effective treatment in diabetic patients with chronic wounds.
To ensure that the wound - healing phenotypes of each model were assessed at comparable stages of diabetes progression, each model was kept in a chronic diabetic state for at least eight weeks before experiments began.