Quantifying the ultrastructure changes of air-dried and irradiated human amniotic membrane using atomic force microscopy: a preliminary study

• Main Authors: Mohd, Suhaili, Ghazali, Mohamad Izhar, Yusof, Norimah, Sulaiman, Sofiah, Ramalingam, Saravana, Kamarul, Tunku, Mansor, Azura
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer 2018
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/21236/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10561-018-9711-4

Air-dried and sterilized amnion has been widely used as a dressing to treat burn and partial thickness wounds. Sterilisation at the standard dose of 25 kGy was reported to cause changes in the morphological structure as observed under the scanning electron microscope. This study aimed to quantify th...