Publications by authors named "Luis Massaro Watanabe"
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of untreated and treated hypertension on abdominal wall healing.
Methods: Thirty-two spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were randomly allocated into two groups: H (n = 16), untreated and E (n = 16), treated with enalapril (40 mg/kg per day). Group C (n = 16) was a nonhypertensive control group.
Purpose: To analyse the effect of tenoxicam, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory, on the abdominal wall healing in rats.
Methods: It was used 40 rats, submitted to longitudinal laparotomies, and allocated, randomly, in one control group (C), consisted of 20 rats treated with saline solution; and one test group (T), consisted of 20 rats treated with tenoxicam. The animals of each group were divided, according to their sacrifice day, into subgroups of 10 animals, named as C7, C14, T7 and T14.