Figure 6
From: Enhanced wound healing properties of guar gum/curcumin-stabilized silver nanoparticle hydrogels
Histopathology of rat skin on day 4, 8, 12 and 16 of the wound incisions stained with hematoxylin & eosin staining. (a) Micrographs of sections of wound incision rat skin under treatment with commercial antibacterial gels (control) and GG/Cur-AgNPs. Hematoxylin (deep blue-purple) stains nucleic acids/nuclei, eosin (pink) stains proteins non-specifically indicating the cytoplasm and extracellular matrix. (b) Number of mononuclear leukocytes. (c) polymorphonuclear leukocytes. (d) fibroblasts. (e) capillaries were counted in 10 high-power field (HPF) (400 × magnification). Data were expressed as mean ± SEM (n = 3/time point). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and *P < 0.001 compared to the control on day of experiments. Scale bar = 40 μm.
