Toward Understanding Scarless Skin Wound Healing and Pathological Scarring
June 2019
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Studysummary This review discusses the mechanisms of wound healing and excessive scarring, highlighting the importance of understanding these processes for developing new therapies to prevent fibrotic scarring in large skin wounds.
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