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SUBMITTER: Moore AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6485243 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moore Alessandra L AL Marshall Clement D CD Barnes Leandra A LA Murphy Matthew P MP Ransom Ryan C RC Longaker Michael T MT
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Developmental biology 20180109 2
Since the discovery of scarless fetal skin wound healing, research in the field has expanded significantly with the hopes of advancing the finding to adult human patients. There are several differences between fetal and adult skin that have been exploited to facilitate scarless healing in adults including growth factors, cytokines, and extracellular matrix substitutes. However, no one therapy, pathway, or cell subtype is sufficient to support scarless wound healing in adult skin. More recently, ...[more]