A Novel Chemically Modified Curcumin “Normalizes” Wound-Healing in Rats with Experimentally Induced Type I Diabetes: Initial Studies

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Masson’s Trichrome staining of collagen (blue-green) in the healing dermis of the NDC and D groups indicates that (1) diabetes delays healing of the subepithelial connective tissue and (2) 1% CMC2.24 topically applied is more effective than the other treatments in helping “normalize” this aspect of wound-healing.