Wound repair (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Wound repair

Caption

A variety of cells (white) proliferate at the ragged edge of a five-day-old wound, including epidermal stem cells (basal layer of epithelium in green), which secrete IL24.

Credit

Laboratory of Elaine Fuchs

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