Research Article

Dried Fruit of the Luffa Sponge as a Source of Chitin for Applications as Skin Substitutes

Figure 5

Top panel: example of photographic illustrations of the wound-healing process using covering with either cotton gauze (right-hand side) or LUFFACHITIN membrane (left-hand side) on days 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, and 25. Bottom panel: comparison of the contraction curves of the wound areas after treatment with cotton gauze (○) and the LUFFACHITIN membrane (●) ( ). * .
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