ABSTRACT:
This a model from the article:
Modeling the effects of treating diabetic wounds with engineered skin
substitutes.
Waugh HV, Sherratt JA. Wound Repair Regen
2007 Jul-Aug;15(4):556-65 17650100
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Abstract:
In this paper, a novel mathematical model of wound healing in both normal and
diabetic cases is presented, focusing upon the effects of adding two currently
available commercial engineered skin substitute therapies to the wound
(Apligraf) and Dermagraft). Our work extends a previously developed model, which
considers inflammatory and repair macrophage dynamics in normal and diabetic
wound healing. Here, we extend the model to include equations for
platelet-derived growth factor concentration, fibroblast density, collagen
density, and hyaluronan concentration. This enables us to examine the variation
of these components in both normal and diabetic wound healing cases, and to
model the treatment protocols of these therapies. Within the context of our
model, we find that the key component to successful healing in diabetic wounds
is hyaluronan and that the therapies work by increasing the amount of hyaluronan
available in the wound environment. The time-to-healing results correlate with
those observed in clinical trials and the model goes some way to establishing an
understanding of why diabetic wounds do not heal, and how these treatments
affect the diabetic wound environment to promote wound closure.
This model was taken from the CellML repository
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The original model was:
Waugh HV, Sherratt JA. (2007) - version=1.0
The original CellML model was created by:
Catherine Lloyd
c.lloyd@auckland.ac.nz
The University of Auckland
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