What is the association between sleep and wound healing?

Subject: What is the association between sleep and wound healing?

Date: Mon Feb 1 23:07:26 1999
Posted by deb neyle
Grade level: grad (non-science)
School: University of Sydney
City: Sydney State/Province: NSW
Country: Australia
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 917932046.Me

Message:


Simplistically, reduced sleep leads to stress leads to reduction 
in immune function leads to delayed wound healing?? 
Or is there something more complex occuring??

Re: What is the association between sleep and wound healing?

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