In vitro models to study wound healing fibroblasts

Burns

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 359-362

  Moulin, V ^a,b   Castilloux, G ^a,b   Jean, A ^a,b   Garrel, D R ^c   Auger, F A ^a,b   Germain, Lucie ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CYTOPLASM; DERMIS; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; SKIN CELL; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030222130     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-4179(95)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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