Dermal microtissues, dermal fibroblasts (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Dermal microtissues, dermal fibroblasts

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Dermal microtissues are ablated using a pulsed laser. Damaged extracellular matrix is cleared by dermal fibroblasts in the vicinity of the wound edge through phagocytosis. Created with BioRender.com.

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Jeroen Eyckmans and Anish Vasan

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