Method of promoting healing of a tympanic membrane perforation
AssigneeOmnio AB
InventorsTor Ny, Jinan Li, Sten Hellstrom, Per-Olof Eriksson
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of plasminogen and plasmin as agents for enhancing healing of tympanic membrane perforations or other wounds, and for reducing scars or necrotic tissue forming during wound healing. The invention also relates to a method for screening of compounds which enhance wound healing by evaluating the healing of tympanic membrane perforations in an animal model.
Claims8
A method of promoting healing of a tympanic membrane perforation comprising administering to a subject in need of such treatment, a composition containing 1 to 10 mg/ml plasminogen directly onto the tympanic membrane perforation.
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