Vol. 29 (5) 2008 Neuro endocrinology letters

Effect of the extract from salivary glands of Lucilia sericata on human neutrophils.

OBJECTIVES: There is incomplete information about host immune response to maggot therapy, nowadays increasingly used to clean chronic wounds from necrotic debris and infection. Maggots are applied to the wound during the inflammatory phase. At the same time neutrophils infiltrate the inflammatory site as the first defense line of the or.....