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SUBMITTER: Fuchs C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8500515 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fuchs Christiane C Pham Linh L Wang Ying Y Farinelli William A WA Anderson R Rox RR Tam Joshua J
Science advances 20211008 41
Skin wounds are immense medical and socioeconomic burdens, and autologous skin grafting remains the gold standard for wound repair. We recently found that full-thickness micro skin tissue columns (MSTCs) can be harvested with minimal donor site morbidity, and that MSTCs applied to wounds “randomly” (without maintaining their natural epidermal-dermal orientation) can accelerate re-epithelialization. However, despite MSTCs containing all the cellular and extracellular contents of full-thickness sk ...[more]