BACKGROUND: Hyaluronan (HA) plays an important role in the repair of damaged skin and has been used for the treatment of wounds. Iodine is a mild topical antiseptic. AIM: A mixture of high molecular weight HA with the iodine complex KI(3) (hyiodine) was reported to accelerate wound healing in patients with diabetes and patients after surgery. We investigated how this mixture affects wound contraction, granulation tissue (GT) and wound edges in excision skin wounds in rats. METHODS: Hyiodine was applied to full-thickness wounds made on the back of rats. The areas of the contracting wounds were calculated from digital photographs. The moving edges of the wound were studied by histological methods. The properties of GT were studied in wounds in which contraction was prevented by the insertion of plastic rings. The effects of hyiodine were compared with those of high molecular weight (1200 kDa) HA, low molecular weight (11 kDa) HA and KI(3) solution. RESULTS: Hyiodine accelerated wound contraction significantly in the first 5 days of healing. On day 3, hyiodine-treated wounds had reduced to 63% of the original area, whereas the wound area in saline-treated animals was 75% of the original size. The proliferating epidermis was thicker in hyiodine-treated animals on day 7. In the wounds with inserted rings, hyiodine caused little change in GT, but the weight of the crust/exudate formed on the top of the wound was increased by 351% compared with only minor changes caused by the hyiodine components alone. CONCLUSIONS: Hyiodine supports wound healing by stimulating wound contraction and epidermal proliferation and by keeping the wound moist through increased exudation.
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- epidermis účinky léků patologie MeSH
- exprese genu MeSH
- exsudáty a transsudáty účinky léků metabolismus MeSH
- granulační tkáň účinky léků patologie MeSH
- hojení ran účinky léků fyziologie MeSH
- jod farmakologie MeSH
- kontraktura chemicky indukované patologie MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- kůže účinky léků zranění patologie MeSH
- kyselina hyaluronová farmakologie MeSH
- kyseliny uronové metabolismus MeSH
- preklinické hodnocení léčiv metody MeSH
- proteiny metabolismus MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Hepatic stellate cells (HSC) and liver myofibroblasts (MFB) are two cell populations most likely responsible for the synthesis of most connective tissue components in fibrotic liver. They differ in their origin and location, and possibly in patterns of gene expression. Normal and carbon tetrachloride-cirrhotic livers from rats were used to isolate HSC. Liver was perfused with pronase and collagenase solutions, followed by centrifugation of the cell suspension on a density gradient. HSC were quiescent 2 days after plating on plastic but they became activated after another 5 days in culture. When the culture was passaged 5 times, its character changed profoundly as HSC were replaced by MFB. Microarray analysis was used to determine gene expression in quiescent HSC, activated HSC and MFB. The expression of 49 genes coding for connective tissue proteins, proteoglycans, metalloproteinases and their inhibitors, growth factors and cellular markers was determined. The pattern of gene expression changed during HSC activation and there were distinct differences between HSC and MFB. Little difference between normal cells and cells isolated from cirrhotic liver was found.
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- experimentální cirhóza jater metabolismus MeSH
- exprese genu MeSH
- extracelulární matrix chemie MeSH
- fibroblasty cytologie metabolismus účinky léků MeSH
- financování organizované MeSH
- imunohistochemie MeSH
- játra cytologie metabolismus účinky léků MeSH
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- kultivované buňky MeSH
- messenger RNA biosyntéza účinky léků MeSH
- metaloproteasy genetika metabolismus MeSH
- myocyty hladké svaloviny cytologie metabolismus účinky léků MeSH
- otrava chloridem uhličitým MeSH
- pojivová tkáň metabolismus účinky léků MeSH
- polymerázová řetězová reakce s reverzní transkripcí MeSH
- proteoglykany genetika metabolismus MeSH
- sekvenční analýza hybridizací s uspořádaným souborem oligonukleotidů MeSH
- tkáňové inhibitory metaloproteinas MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- krysa rodu rattus MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- srovnávací studie MeSH
