Original title: Wound healing: cellular mechanisms and pathological outcomes
Healing a wound takes many kinds of cell activity working in a coordinated way. Diabetes and ageing can disrupt those activities, making healing harder and sometimes leaving a wound that does not heal. This review explains the cellular eventsActivities carried out by cells that help repair damaged tissue. involved in tissue repair and discusses how knowledge of wound problems could inform future treatments.
Imagine a group of people cleaning up after a big spill. Each person has a different job, and the mess stays until their work fits together. If some people are slowed down or do their jobs out of order, the cleanup can drag on. In this paper, the people’s coordinated jobs stand for the cell activities that repair tissue, and the stalled cleanup stands for a wound that fails to heal.
People with diabetes or older adults can have wounds that heal poorly or keep returning. Understanding which cellular behaviours go wrong could help guide future wound treatments.
The abstract does not report specific cellular mechanisms, clinical evidence, or results from testing treatments. It describes a review of wound repair and pathology, and says that this understanding could inform future therapies; it does not establish that any particular therapy works.
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Wound healing: cellular mechanisms and pathological outcomes — Holly Nicola Wilkinson, Matthew James Hardman — Open Biology — doi:10.1098/rsob.200223
Abstract licence: CC BY
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