6mer HA fragments accelerate repair of full thickness excisional wounds.

<p>Full thickness excisional wounds were treated with a mixture of Collagen I and either 6mer, 8mer or 10mer 40(1–50 µg/ml) or PBS as described in Material and Methods. A: Wound edges were traced and remaining wound area quantified by image analysis. Graph shows remaining wound area relative to original wound size on day 7 after wounding. Mean±SE of N = 6 wounds. B: Wound closure is completed 2 weeks after wounding. Representative images of 2 weeks old wounds that were stained with Masson’s Trichrome are shown.