Table 1.

Overview of experimental groups, treatment regimes, time of sacrifice after wounding, and gender (d, day; s, seconds). Primary cells (e.g., keratinocytes and fibroblasts) were isolated from the skin of ten males and cultivated over four weeks as described in material and methods.

Groups	Day (d) of tissue collection	Treatment regime	Male♂	Female♀
3 s plasma	d3	3 s for two times (d0, d3)	-	3
ctrl		0 s	-	3
3 s plasma	d6	3 s (3x on d0, d3, d6)	-	4
20 s plasma		20 s (3x on d0, d3, d6)	-	3
ctrl		0 s	10	11
3 s plasma	d15	every 3rd d over 14 d (6x)	10	13
20 s plasma		every 3rd d over 14 d (6x)	9	12
H2O2 (1 mM)	d15	every 3rd d over 14 d (6x)	9	8
argon (0, 3, 20 s)	d15	every 3rd d over 14 d (6x)	-	9
primary cells	-	-	6	3