Objective: The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the interrelationship
between hormones, nutrition, and wound healing. Methods: The data on various hormones …

Abstract Diabetic foot ulcers affect 15–20% of all diabetic patients and remain an important
challenge since the available therapies have limited efficacy and some of the novel …

purpose. To investigate the effects of insulin and leptin on in vitro wound healing of
transformed human corneal epithelial cell monolayers and to identify cellular (migration …

Diabetes currently affects over twenty‐five million Americans. Annual health care cost of
diabetes exceeds $254 billion and is associated with a distinct set of diabetic complications …

Wound care has been clinically demanding due to inefficacious treatment that represents an
economic burden for healthcare systems. In Europe, approximately 7 million people are …

Wound healing is an exuberant and complex cascade of cellular and biochemical events
that must follow a regulated path for ultimately successful repair to occur. The cell-to-cell …

background. Poorly healing wounds result in significant morbidity postoperatively.
Numerous attempts have been made to study wound healing in vivo to understand better the …

The effects of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF
beta) on the rate of wound repair in both normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats …

Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is an atypical zinc-metalloendopeptidase that hydrolyzes
insulin and other intermediate-sized peptide hormones, many of which are implicated in skin …

In investigations on the role of insulin on migration of rat aortic smooth muscle cells,
migration of the cells was measured by a modified Boyden chamber technique with 12-L …