Continuing education information: Regenerative healing in fetal skin: A review of the literature

Ostomy Wound Management

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 16-31

  Wilgus, Traci A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Embryo; Fetus; Regeneration; Scar; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

AUTACOID; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEOGLYCAN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL INJURY; REVIEW; SKIN; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; KERATINOCYTES; LEUKOCYTES; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PRENATAL INJURIES; PROTEOGLYCANS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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