Fetal wound healing: Current biology

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-61

  Bullard, Kelli M ^a   Longaker, Michael T ^b   Lorenz, H Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COLLAGEN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; HYALURONIC ACID; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS CELL; FETUS SURGERY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WOUND HEALING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKIN;

CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SKIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0038313168     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6737-2     Document Type: Review

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