The relationship between skin stretching/contraction and pathologic scarring: The important role of mechanical forces in keloid generation

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-157

  Ogawa, Rei ^a   Okai, Kazuhisa ^b   Tokumura, Fumio ^c   Mori, Kazuyuki ^b   Ohmori, Yasutaka ^a   Huang, Chenyu ^a   Hyakusoku, Hiko ^a   Akaishi, Satoshi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Medical Institute Department   (Japan)

^c Nichiban Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DNA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; ION CHANNEL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BACK; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FACE; FORCE; FOREHEAD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; JAPANESE; JAW; KELOID; LEG; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCAR; SCAR FORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN; SKIN GRAFT; THIGH; THORAX; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; KELOID; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84863283818     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2012.00766.x     Document Type: Article

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