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Wound healing potential of Tragia involucrata extract in rats.

Perumal Samy R, Gopalakrishnakone P, Sarumathi M, Ignacimuthu S

Venom and Toxin Research Programme, Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore.

The methanol extract of the roots of Tragia involucrata topically tested at doses of 100 and 200 mg/kg exerted significant wound healing effect in Staphylococcus aureus-induced excision wound in rats.

Published 5 June 2006 in Fitoterapia, 77(4): 300-2.
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