Epithelial mechanobiology, skin wound healing, and the stem cell niche

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 397-409

  Evans, Nicholas D ^a,b   Oreffo, Richard O C ^b   Healy, Eugene ^b   Thurner, Philipp J ^a   Man, Yu Hin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL BARRIER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL HETEROGENEITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS; TOPICAL APPLICATION;

CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

STRESSES;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DERMIS; ELASTICITY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIZATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOLOGY; INFECTION RISK; KERATINOCYTE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SCAR; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INJURY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; TOPOGRAPHY; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; SKIN; STEM CELL NICHE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84887614559     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.04.023     Document Type: Article

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