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Scarless Fetal Healing Therapeutic Implications

Year: 1992

Type: article

Abstract: The purpose of this report is to call attention to the fetal wound healing process as a blueprint for ideal tissue repair. Wound healing in the fetus is fundamentally different from healing in the adult. Fetal tissue repair occurs rapidly and in the absence of scar formation. Because scarring and fibrosis dominate some diseases in every area of medicine, an understanding of fetal wound healing should help develop therapeutic strategies to avert the devastating consequences of excessive scar formation.

Source: Annals of Surgery

DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199201000-00004

Authors: N. SCOTT ADZICK, MICHAEL T. LONGAKER

Institution: University of California, San Francisco

Language: English

Topic: Wound Healing and Treatments

Subfield: Rehabilitation

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development