At the nexus of physics and physiology
DIPC Seminars
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Prof. Peter Apell, Chalmers University of Technology
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2010/10/29
14:00 - Place
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC).Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 4 (nearby the Facultad de Quimica), Donostia
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The seminar covers an introduction to wound healing – a sum of complex
processes from microscopic to macroscopic levels. An energy conservation
argument is coupled with physiological parameters such as the scaling of the
metabolic rate with body mass, to monitor the growth of new tissue. Our
studies imply that calculating the wound healing rate may be the parameter
which yields the most insight into the healing process with obvious diagnostic
and therapeutic implications. I will address the possibility of speeding up
wound healing with knowledge from electrostatics as well as prolonging it, to
reduce scarring, with the use of starch.