| Yazarlar (5) |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Alican BİLDEN
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Doç. Dr. Özlem KARA
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Arş. Gör. Merve KAHRAMAN
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Arş. Gör. Nebahat ÇAĞLAYAN
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Prof. Dr. Muttalip ÇİÇEK
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
| Özet |
| Objectives This study was conducted in response to the increasing interest in understanding the effects of both modern and traditional complementary medicine on incisional wound healing. Herein, it was aimed to investigate the wound healing effects of medicinal leech therapy and leech saliva in an experimentally created incisional skin wound model. Methods Fifteen rats underwent full-thickness incisions on their dorsal regions and were randomly assigned to five equal groups, as the Leech Saliva (LS) group, where wounds were treated topically with leech saliva once daily; Leech Therapy-1 (LT-1) group, where leech therapy was administered once at the beginning of the experiment; Leech Therapy-2 (LT-2) group, where leech therapy was applied twice, on days 0 and 3; Positive Control (PC) group, where wounds were treated daily with Phyto cream containing Triticum vulgare; and Negative Control (NC … |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| in vivo | incisional wound | medicinal leech therapy |
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | SCOPUS dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine |
| Dergi ISSN | 1553-3840 Scopus Dergi |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | ISI |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 06-2025 |
| Cilt No | 22 |
| Sayı | 2 |
| Sayfalar | 288 / 295 |
| Doi Numarası | 10.1515/jcim-2024-0351 |
| Makale Linki | https://doi.org/10.1515/jcim-2024-0351 |
| Atıf Sayıları | |
| SCOPUS | 2 |
| Google Scholar | 3 |
