Table 3.

Histological assessment of the inflammatory response intensity scores (mean ± standard deviation) over the course of time of the healing of the wound.

Groups	Experimental Time (days)
	Inflammation a	Wound-Healing Histological Grading b
	Day 3	Day 7	Day 14	21
CTR	3.0 ± 0.0	9.4 ± 1.2	12.8 ± 1.7	16.3 ± 1.4
GEL	2.6 ± 0.5 *	10.2 ± 1.6	13.6 ± 1.9	17.1 ± 1.3
GELPG	2.4 ± 0.5 *	11.7 ± 1.3 *	15.1 ± 1.5 **	18.2 ± 1.2 **

^a Nunes et al. (2011) [6]. ^b Sultana et al. (2009) and Gupta and Kumar (2015) [21]. Significant differences compared with the CTR are expressed as * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, during the same times (columns).