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Title: | The Use of Chitosan for Treatment of Pressure Ulcers |
Author(s): | Park, Chan Jerome |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Johnson, Amy J. Wagoner; Jamison, Russell D. |
Department / Program: | Materials Science and Engineering |
Discipline: | Materials Science and Engineering |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery |
Abstract: | Collectively, this dissertation has: (1) established biologically critical rationales for employing chitosan to treat pressure ulcers based on ulcer pathology and wound environments and (2) demonstrated the efficacy of chitosan and bFGF in treating pressure ulcers in an aged mouse model. This body of work presents a potentially beneficial method of treating pressure ulcers in clinical medicine. |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 97 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82834 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3347497 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2008 |
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Dissertations and Theses - Materials Science and Engineering
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois