Natural products and/or isolated compounds on wound healing

dc.contributor.authorAgyare, Christian
dc.contributor.authorAkindele, Abidemi J.
dc.contributor.authorSteenkamp, Vanessa
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-19T11:56:08Z
dc.date.available2019-08-19T11:56:08Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe effective treatment of wounds remains a major global health challenge. Failure to heal or elongation of the wound healing process results in increased financial and social stress being placed on health institutions, care-givers, patients, and their families. The occurrence of various forms of wounds such as chronic and acute wounds, pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, and diabetic ulcers has increased over the years in most countries, especially developed countries where life expectancy has been increasing over timeand is accompanied by geriatric diseases. Acute and chronic, non healing wounds impose heavy financial and quality of life burdens on patients. Chronic wounds are normally characterized by intense pain, infection, loss of function, and loss of mobility and may lead to amputations and in some cases even death. With an increase in the prevalence of wounds and the high cost of orthodox medicines, most patients, especially those in developing countries, resort to herbal preparations or remedies which are believed to be readily available and cheap for the treatment thereof. The urgent need for the identification of effective, safe, and cost efficient wound healing promoters which can be introduced into clinical practice is unequivocal. This has driven an increase in the search for potent, cost effective wound healing agents from natural products including medicinal plants.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPharmacologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecamen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAgyare, C., Akindele, A.J. & Steenkamp, V. 2019, 'Natural products and/or isolated compounds on wound healing', Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 2019, no. ID 4594965, pp. 1-3.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1741-427X (print)
dc.identifier.issn1741-4288 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1155/2019/4594965
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/71137
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherHindawi Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 Christian Agyare et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectMedicinal plantsen_ZA
dc.subjectChronic woundsen_ZA
dc.subjectTreatmenten_ZA
dc.subjectPatientsen_ZA
dc.subjectNatural productsen_ZA
dc.subjectWound healingen_ZA
dc.subjectIsolated compoundsen_ZA
dc.titleNatural products and/or isolated compounds on wound healingen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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