Table 4.

Burn wound model of control, test Wistar albino rats

Wound contraction mean ± SE day (mm)2
Groups	1st day	5th day	10th day	15th day	Epithelisation period mean ± SE (days)
Control	102.12 ± 5.42 (1)	81.59 ± 3.54 (11)	60.2 ± 2.9 (47)	39.76 ± 3.14 (55)	21.84 ± 0.30
Test	84.5 ± 3.56a (1)	53.45 ± 2.09b (45)	26.16 ± 1.39 (72)	9.63 ± 1.02b (89)	18.00 ± 0.32

Each values are expressed as mean ± SEM; one‐way ANOVA followed by Dunnet's t‐test; t‐value denotes significance at ^a P < 0.05 and ^b P < 0.01.

% wound contraction is given within parentheses.