{"id":120446,"date":"2021-03-11T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/electricity-could-help-speed-wound-healing-new-study-shows"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:02:50","slug":"electricity-could-help-speed-wound-healing-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/electricity-could-help-speed-wound-healing-new-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Electricity could help speed wound healing, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electricity-could-help-speed-wound-healing-new-study-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electric stimulation may be able to help blood vessels carry white blood cells and oxygen to wounds, speeding healing, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal <i>Lab on a Chip<\/i>, found that steady <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/electrical+stimulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical stimulation<\/a> generates increased permeability across <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood<\/a> vessels, providing new insight into the ways <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/new+blood+vessels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new blood vessels<\/a> might grow.<\/p>\n<p>The electrical stimulation provided a constant voltage with an accompanying electric current in the presence of fluid flow. The findings indicate that stimulation increases permeability of the blood vessel\u2014an important characteristic that can help wound-healing substances in the blood reach injuries more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric stimulation may be able to help blood vessels carry white blood cells and oxygen to wounds, speeding healing, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip, found that steady electrical stimulation generates increased permeability across blood vessels, providing new insight into the ways new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}