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Innovative treatment using tilapia skin as a xenograftfor partial thickness bur...
Lima-Junior, Edmar Maciel; Moraes Filho, Manoel Odorico de; Costa, Bruno Almeida; Fechine, Francisco Vagnaldo; Moraes, Maria Elisabete Amaral deTilapia skin has non-infectious microbiota, high amounts of type I collagen, and similar morphological structure to human skin, so it has been suggested as a potential xenograft for the management of burn wounds. A 23-year-old male patient, with no comorbidities, arrived at our burn treatment center after a thermal injury caused by contact with flames from a gunpowder explosion. Superficial partial thickness bu...
Uso da pele de tilápia (Oreochromis niloticus), como curativo biológico oclusiv...
Lima-Junior, Edmar Maciel; Picollo, Nelson Sarto; Miranda, Marcelo José Borges de; Ribeiro, Wesley Lyeverton Correia; Alves, Ana Paula Negreiros NunesOBJECTIVE: To evaluate the use of tilapia skin as a temporary occlusive dressing in superficial and deep second degree burns in rats. METHODS: A prospective, qualitative and quantitative study, in which 40 Wistar rats randomly divided into four groups and underwent surgery for burn production: C1, the wounds were washed with saline solution; C2, open dressing treated with silver sulfadiazine 1%; T1, superficial...