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Fabrication and Operation of an Oxygen Insert for Adherent Cellular Cultures
Published on: January 7, 2010
[Oxygen tension in would tissues during healing]
Abstract:
Transcutaneous strain of oxygen (TcPO2) was studied in tissues of 111 wounds in 110 patients. The uncomplicated course of the wound process was characterized by rapid normalization of the initially decreased TcPO2 in the wounds closed with sutures or in case of gradual approximation of their margins as well as by a slow elevation when the wounds were healing by second intention. High significance of measuring TcPO2 was shown for diagnosis of acute pyo-inflammatory diseases and wound complications. Great feed-back correlation was found between the degree of disjunction of the wound margins and TcPO2 of its tissues. A hypothesis is put forward on the dependence between the degree of tissue tension and the precapillary sphincter tone allowing an explanation of all the changes in TcPO2 of the wound tissues in the process of its healing.
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