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Nutrition and Wound Healing
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Nutrition, Dietics & BariatricsTable of contents
- Front cover
- In Memoriam for Charles R. Baxter, M.D.
- Preface
- Editor
- Contributors
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Overview of Nutrition and Wound Healing
- Chapter 2. Carbohydrates and Wound Healing
- Chapter 3. Fat and Wound Healing
- Chapter 4. Protein and Wound Healing
- Chapter 5. Glutamine and Wound Healing
- Chapter 6. Arginine and Wound Healing
- Chapter 7. B Vitamins and Wound Healing
- Chapter 8. Vitamin C and Wound Healing
- Chapter 9. Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Wound Healing
- Chapter 10. Trace Elements and Wound Healing
- Chapter 11. Nutrition and Wound Healing in Burns, Trauma, and Sepsis
- Chapter 12. Nutrition and Wound Healing in Cancer
- Chapter 13. Nutrition and Wound Healing at the Age Extremes
- Chapter 14. Pharmacologic Manipulation of the Healing Wound: The Role of Hormones
- Index
- Back cover
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