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Volume 159, Issue 1 , Pages e25-e28 , March 2010

Decrease in Wound Tensile Strength Following Post-Surgical Estrogen Replacement Therapy in Ovariectomized Rats During the Early Phase of Healing is Mediated Via ER-α Rather than ER-β: A Preliminary Report

Peter Gál, M.Sc.
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
- Department of Pathological Anatomy, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
- To whom correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed at Department for Biomedical Research, The East-Slovak Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Košice, Slovak Republic.
Martin Novotný, M.D.
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
Tomáš Vasilenko
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
Filip Depta
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
Igor Šulla, D.V.M., Ph.D.
- Department of Histology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
Zoltán Tomori, Ph.D.
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic