Wound Healing

Abstract

THE significance of studies on abnormal wound healing resides mainly in their delineation of some of the essential features of normal repair. pharmacologic, species and other experimental variables in such investigations make their interpretation difficult and their application to the metabolic processes of health and disease in man somewhat speculative. Among the conditions that cause defective wound healing two naturally occurring diseases, scurvy and protein starvation, have been the most widely investigated.nutritional DeficienciesAscorbic AcidOnly the guinea pig, primates and man are known to require dietary vitamin C and to suffer from scurvy in its absence. Although ascorbic . . .