A Comparison of the Effects of Alpha and Medical-Grade Honey Ointments on Cutaneous Wound Healing in Rats

Table 1

The histopathological scoring system for evaluation of wound [8].

Parameter	Score
	0	1	2	3
Acute and chronic inflammation	None	Scant	Moderate	Abundant
Amount of granulation tissue	None	Scant	Moderate	Abundant
Granulation tissue maturation	Immature	Mild maturation	Moderate maturation	Fully mature
Amount of collagen deposition	None	Scant	Moderate	Abundant
Reepithelialization	None	Partial	Complete but immature or thin	Complete and mature
Neovascularization	None	Up to five vessels per	6 to 10 vessels per HPF	More than 10 vessels per HPF

: microscopic high power field.