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An in vitro method to test the safety and efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in the healing of a canine skin model

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Veterinary Research, April 2016
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Title
An in vitro method to test the safety and efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in the healing of a canine skin model
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BMC Veterinary Research, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12917-016-0689-5
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Dominique Gagnon, Thomas W.G. Gibson, Ameet Singh, Alex R. zur Linden, Jaimie E. Kazienko, Jonathan LaMarre

Abstract

Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) has been used clinically as a treatment modality for a variety of medical conditions including wound-healing processes. It is an attractive and emerging method to enhance wound healing and improve clinical outcomes both in human and veterinary medicine. Despite the fact that the use of LLLT continues to gain in popularity, there is no universally accepted theory that defends all its cellular effects and beneficial biological processes in tissue repair. The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of LLLT on cellular migration and proliferation of cultured canine epidermal keratinocytes (CPEK) in an in vitro wound healing model. Keratinocyte migration and proliferation were assessed using a scratch migration assay and a proliferation assay, respectively. Fifteen independent replicates were performed for each assay. Canine epidermal keratinocyte cells exposed to LLLT with 0.1, 0.2, and 1.2 J/cm(2) migrated significantly more rapidly (p < 0.03) and showed significantly higher rates of proliferation (p < 0.0001) compared to non-irradiated cells cultured in the same medium and cells exposed to the higher energy dose of 10 J/cm(2). Irradiation with 10 J/cm(2) was characterized by decreased cellular migration and proliferation. These results revealed that LLLT has a measurable, dose-dependent effect on two different aspects of keratinocyte biology in vitro. In this in vitro wound-healing model, LLLT increased cellular migration and proliferation at doses of 0.1, 0.2, and 1.2 J/cm(2) while exposure to 10 J/cm(2) decreased cellular migration and proliferation. These data suggest that the beneficial effects of LLLT in vivo may be due, in part, to effects on keratinocyte behavior.

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Unknown 80 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 19%
Student > Bachelor 13 16%
Researcher 9 11%
Other 6 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 18 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 16 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 10%
Engineering 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 8%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 21 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2016.
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#7,960,052
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#105,991
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#10
of 33 outputs
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