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Volume 16 (3):138-146, 2012. Extensively redacted 2017.


Evaluation of Glycyrrhiza glabra  (Licorice) on wound healing in rats

 

Aboutorab Tabatabaei Naeini1, Ahmad Oryan2, Behrooz Nikahval1, Mahvash Toosinezhad

 

1Department(s) of Surgery and Radiology, and 2Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

 

ABSTRACT

 

Naeini AT, Oryan A, NikahvalB, Toosinezhad M., Evaluation of Glycyrrhiza glabra  (Licorice) on wound healing in rats, Onl J Vet Res., 16 (3):138-146, 2012. Glycyrrhiza glabra (Licorice) has been shown to have beneficial effects on healing. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of Licorice Root Powder (LRP) on cutaneous wound healing. After aseptic surgical preparations, identical (2×2cm) full thickness wounds were created in the skin of the dorsal cervical region of 10 rats and 10 untreated control rats. Treated rats were given LPR topically daily and rinsed with sterile saline for 5 days. Wounds were monitored 21 days and then rats were euthanized. The rate of wound healing was determined planimetrically at day 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20. Histology revealed differences in re-epithelialization, inflammatory cell infiltration and tissue organization. Stiffness and ultimate strength of wounds treated with LPR were not different to controls.

 

Keywords: Licorice powder, Wound healing, Cutaneous, rat


 

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