Actinidia deliciosa (kiwifruit), a new drug for enzymatic debridement of acute burn wounds

• Published in: Burns Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 352 - 355
• Main Authors: Hafezi, Farhad, Rad, Hamid Elmi, Naghibzadeh, Bijan, Nouhi, AmirHossein, Naghibzadeh, Ghazal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Actinidia; Actinidia deliciosa; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Burns; Burns - pathology; Burns - therapy; Critical Care; Debridement - methods; Disease Models, Animal; Enzymatic wound debridement; Kiwifruit; Male; Medical sciences; Phytotherapy - methods; Plant Extracts - therapeutic use; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents; Treatment Outcome; Wound healing; Wound Healing - drug effects; Enzymatic wound debridement; Kiwifruit; Wound healing; Burn; Skin disease; Healing agent; Acute; Debridment; Cicatrization; Wound

Actinidia deliciosa (kiwifruit) is used as a meat tenderizer. It acts rapidly and efficiently to soften meat, liquefying it if allowed to work for more than a few hours. Observing this effect and the lack of studies addressing this subject in the literature, the authors sought to investigate the use...