Steps in wound healing in model system (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Steps in wound healing in model system

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Biomedical engineers have developed a technique to observe wound healing in real time, discovering a central role for cells known as fibroblasts. The work is the first demonstration of a wound closure model within human vascularized tissue in a petri dish. This image shows steps in wound healing in a model system.

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Jeroen Eyckmans, Juliann B. Tefft

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