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This study tested a microneedle patch on rabbit and pig models to support skin regeneration, revealing that the treatment accelerated wound closure, reduced scar formation, and promoted hair-bearing tissue and follicle growth, suggesting a trauma-guided framework for skin restoration.

This review synthesizes current advances in transcriptomics and RNA regulatory networks, alongside stem cell-derived skin organoid research, to propose a conceptual framework for understanding and potentially guiding regenerative skin repair, without claiming clinical readiness.

This study identified a new role for IL-4Ra-induced oxidative metabolism in wound macrophages, essential for balancing inflammatory response and promoting pro-fibrotic repair, suggesting a target for fibrosis prevention.

This study found that Wnt1/βcatenin signaling plays a crucial role in activating the epicardium and cardiac fibroblasts, which supports cardiac repair following acute ischemic injury.

This review article addresses how the TRPV4 ion channel helps cells respond to mechanical and environmental stimuli, discussing its role in calcium signaling crucial for tissue repair and fibrosis across various organ systems, and highlighting potential therapeutic targets from animal and disease models.

This study found that a specific Gli1+ subpopulation in the perivascular niche plays a crucial role in wound healing by differentiating into myofibroblasts, with their genetic ablation impairing wound repair.

This study found that Fraser's Dolphin, a tight-skinned mammal, can regenerate complex skin architecture with minimal scarring after large full-thickness wounds, even in high-tension environments, offering insights into regenerative healing mechanisms typically obscured by fibrotic responses.

This review discusses the development, lineages, functions, and roles of fibroblasts in fibrosis across four organs, highlighting their capabilities in tissue repair and contributions to fibrotic disorders when aberrantly activated, but it reports no new experimental findings.

This review explores fibroblast heterogeneity in the mammalian dermis and suggests potential therapeutic applications by targeting fibroblast subtypes, but reports no new experimental results.

This study demonstrated that CD19-CAR T cell therapy may promote structural regeneration in the skin of systemic sclerosis patients, as evidenced by histological improvements and fibroblast population changes, suggesting its potential for tissue remodeling in fibrotic diseases.

This review discusses the role of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in wound healing and tissue repair, highlighting its potential contributions to progenitor cell pools, but reports no new clinical findings.

This study found that electrospun membranes with aligned surface topography enhanced wound healing and hair follicle regeneration while modulating the immune response in a mouse skin wound model.

This review explores current knowledge on fibroblast lineage specification and its impact on scar-free wound healing, noting that early fetal skin fibroblasts support regeneration, while later developmental shifts lead to fibrosis, highlighting potential strategies to reprogram adult fibroblasts for regenerative repair.

In this study, researchers found that inhibiting YAP signaling in skin wounds leads to regenerative repair with active Trps1 and Wnt signaling, contrasting the typical fibrotic scarring process.

This study found that a pro-fibrotic Wnt1/βcatenin injury response is crucial for maintaining cardiac function following acute ischaemic cardiac injury by activating the epicardium and cardiac fibroblasts.

In this review, retinoids are highlighted as promising agents for promoting scarless skin regeneration by coordinating cellular and molecular processes that suppress fibrosis, enhance re-epithelialization, promote angiogenesis, and enable hair follicle formation, potentially advancing functional skin repair.

This study found that culturing fibroblasts on stiffer substrates mimicking fibrotic wounds led to an aligned EDA fibronectin matrix with thinner fibers and decreased YAP activity, suggesting disrupted signaling that might be restored to promote regenerative wound repair.

In this source, recent single-cell RNA-sequencing advances reveal significant transcriptional heterogeneity among skin fibroblasts, and the discussion focuses on the distinct subtypes' roles in skin homeostasis, repair, and their evolution in fibrotic diseases like keloid scars and cancer.

This study found that fibromodulin significantly reduces scar formation and boosts scar strength in rodent and porcine models, suggesting potential for FMOD-based therapies in cutaneous wound repair.

This research observed that diabetes impairs wound healing in mice by disrupting key mechanotransduction pathways in fibroblasts, which are crucial for the healing process. The study also suggests transcriptomic changes could inform future diabetic wound repair therapies.

This study found that tissue damage in adult mice triggers the release of mitochondrial DNA, which activates the TLR9 pathway and influences hair regeneration by recruiting gamma delta T cells, ultimately affecting healing outcomes such as fibrosis.

This study suggests that exosomal miRNAs from human amniotic fluid stem cells may inhibit myofibroblast differentiation and reduce fibrotic scarring in wound healing.

This study found that inadequate thickness of deep dermal tissue in pigs is a key factor leading to fibrosis, with fibrosis likely serving a compensatory function for skin thickness.

This review explores advancements in cytokine engineering for regenerative medicine, highlighting the development of modified cytokines with enhanced stability and tissue-targeting, potentially improving treatments for chronic wounds and fibrotic diseases by promoting tissue healing and minimizing inflammation, while adapting concepts from cancer immunotherapy.

In this review, the researchers highlight the role of fibroblasts in regulating the extracellular matrix and immune responses, emphasizing the impact on macrophages and potential therapeutic insights for fibrotic diseases and cancer.

This review highlights the complications of radiation therapy, specifically radiation cystitis, and explores the potential of mesenchymal stem cell-based therapies for tissue repair while discussing their therapeutic potential and limitations.

This review explores how spiny mice (Acomys spp.) exhibit unique regenerative healing abilities, with findings indicating that these rodents use specialized injury response mechanisms and proregenerative pathways to enhance tissue repair and regeneration compared to scar-forming mammals.

In laboratory research, investigators found that apoptotic vesicles from interleukin-10-treated fibroblasts promote wound healing and reduce fibrotic scarring by enhancing mitochondrial function, modulating collagen composition, and inhibiting the Hedgehog signalling pathway, offering potential for regenerative medicine applications.

This study found that sustained ERK activity during tissue regeneration in spiny mice is linked to fibroblast growth factor and ErbB signaling, while inhibiting ERK shifted regeneration toward scarring.

This review discusses the evolution of adipose tissue research in regenerative medicine, from tissue transfer to cell-free bioengineering applications, highlighting its therapeutic potential, current limitations, and future directions.