SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
Thymosin beta4 accelerates wound healing.
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- Research compared thymosin beta-4 with saline in a rat skin-wound model, alongside laboratory tests of skin-cell migration.
- Who / model studied
- Rats had full-thickness wounds assessed at four and seven days. Cell migration was measured after 4–5 hours. Sample sizes were not stated in the abstract.
- Studied dose & schedule
- Dose and schedule have not yet been extracted for this summary.
- What the study found
- Treated wounds showed 42% greater surface re-covering at four days and up to 61% at seven days. Wound contraction was at least 11% greater by day seven, with increased collagen deposition and blood-vessel formation. Skin-cell migration increased two- to threefold versus culture medium alone.
- Limitations & context
- No author-stated limitations or adverse-event results were available in the abstract. Rat and cell findings do not establish human wound-healing effectiveness.
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.1999.00708.x