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J.C.T. Church
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J.C.T. Church is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wound healing & Proteolytic enzymes. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 213 citations.
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Degradation of extracellular matrix components by defined proteinases from the greenbottle larva Lucilia sericata used for the clinical debridement of non-healing wounds.
Louise Chambers,S. Woodrow,A. Brown,P.D. Harris,D. Phillips,M. Hall,J.C.T. Church,David I. Pritchard +7 more
TL;DR: Larvae of the greenbottle fly Lucilia sericata are used routinely for the clinical treatment of difficult necrotic and infected wounds and degradation by proteinases contained in larval excretory/secretory products is thought to contribute to wound debridement by removal of dead tissue.