Research Article

A Comparison Study of Growth Factor Expression following Treatment with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, Saline Solution, Povidone-Iodine, and Lavender Oil in Wounds Healing

Table 1

Examination of mean PDGF-A and EGF ELISA values in the groups and two-way comparisons of control and other groups.

ControlTENSPISSLavender oil value
C-TENSC-PIC-SSC-LO

PDGF-A 0.0000.0000.0000.000
EGF 0.0000.05*0.0000.000

TENS: transcutaneous nerve stimulation; PI: povidone-iodine; SS: saline solution; C: control; LO: lavender oil; * one-way analysis of variance ANOVA, data are expressed as mean ± SD.