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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wound Repair Regen. 2009 May–Jun;17(3):360. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2009.00483.x

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Histological appearance of rat skin following treatment for 15 days with DMSO, 10% curcumin, 3% ginger extract or the combination of curcumin and ginger extract. Features to note include a slight thickening of the epidermis in the skin from curcumin-treated rats (with or without ginger) and a more columnar appearance of cells in the basal epithelium. There were no major changes in the appearance of the dermal matrix in any of the treatment groups relative to the DMSO control. In skin from ginger extract-treated animals, (with or without curcumin) there was an increase in the number of blood vessels in the immediate sub-epithelial dermis as compared to DMSO-treated skin. Increased vessel formation was not observed in the skin of rats treated with curcumin alone. Scale bar = 75 µm