March 2025 in “Frontiers in Pharmacology” This study developed a hydrogel dressing incorporating angelica polysaccharides, demonstrating enhanced wound healing properties in a mouse model by promoting rapid hemostasis, tissue healing, and new blood vessel formation compared to Tegaderm™ film.
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July 1996 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” Using patient's own hair cells can effectively heal chronic leg ulcers.
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April 2022 in “F1000Research” This review discusses the roles of various biological mediators in the stages of skin regeneration, without providing new results, and suggests that understanding their mechanisms could improve treatment of skin wounds.
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May 2023 in “Composites Part B: Engineering” In this study, a novel nanocomposite hydrogel was developed for diabetic wound care, demonstrating superior tissue adhesion, antibacterial properties, and healing capabilities in vivo and in vitro, while also allowing real-time pH monitoring to aid clinical management.
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.
January 2026 in “Materials Horizons” This source highlights the challenge in achieving scarless healing with skin appendage regeneration for wounds and notes that vitamin A derivatives show promise for promoting new follicle growth. However, specific results from this research are not reported in the abstract.
July 2024 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” Combining certain treatments, including FOL005, may improve healing of difficult wounds.
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March 2019 in “International Wound Journal” In this study, a new cell-tissue technology using a patient's own skin to create a full-thickness skin autograft successfully treated a chronic wound larger than 200 cm², achieving complete functional skin coverage within 12 weeks and maintaining results at a 6-month follow-up.
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February 2024 in “International Journal of Molecular Sciences” This review discusses the growing importance of hydrogel scaffolds in skin wound healing, highlighting their unique properties and recent advancements in their use for treating difficult tissue damage, particularly within tissue engineering.
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April 2021 in “Elsevier eBooks” This article discusses the structure and functions of the integumentary system and wound healing processes, but it reports no new clinical findings.
This review discusses the complex process of wound healing and emerging areas of interest in wound treatment, reporting no new clinical findings.
October 2022 in “Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd” This review discusses the roles of various growth factors and cytokines in skin regeneration, highlighting their potential for future therapeutic development, and reports no new experimental findings.
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September 2018 in “Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine” In this study using rabbits, HA2 hydrogels made from cross-linked hyaluronic acid and polysaccharide promoted wound healing better than other treatments, reducing inflammation and scar formation.
January 2009 in “Junshi Yixue Kexueyuan yuankan” This study found that implanting hair follicle dermal sheath cells in rat skin wounds significantly accelerated wound contraction and healing compared to controls.
January 2026 in “Advanced Science” In this study, a chronotherapeutic bilayer dressing system showed enhanced diabetic wound healing in a model by reducing inflammation through polyphenols and promoting repair with sustained PDGF-BB delivery, leading to faster re-epithelialization and hair follicle regeneration.
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February 2021 in “Diabetes” This study found that Dock5 plays a crucial role in keratinocyte function and wound healing, with its expression reduced in diabetic models but improving healing when restored.
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January 2004 This paper describes the cellular and molecular processes involved in dermal tissue repair and reports no new experimental results.
December 2025 in “Regenerative Biomaterials” In this study, researchers developed a responsive bilayer hydrogel for diabetic wounds that delivers drugs and oxygen in sync with healing stages, achieving a 99.1% wound closure rate in 14 days by integrating anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anti-fouling functions.
December 2025 in “ACS Applied Bio Materials” This study demonstrated that an aloe polysaccharide-collagen wound dressing improved wound healing by enhancing angiogenesis and reducing inflammation in vivo.
August 2023 in “ACS applied materials & interfaces” In this study, researchers developed an innovative wound healing patch combining electrical and chemical components, which effectively guided recovery in animal scald models by promoting collagen deposition and the regeneration of skin structures.
26 citations
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December 2021 in “Regenerative Biomaterials” This study found that an injectable ceria-based nanocomposite hydrogel improved wound healing and epithelium regeneration, including hair follicle and adipocyte tissue formation, in full-thickness skin wound models.
115 citations
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December 2017 in “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology” This review discusses the origins, differentiation, and function of dermal fibroblasts in skin development and healing, reporting no new clinical results.
February 2008 in “Medical & surgical dermatology” Some treatments like topical oxygen and stem cells show promise for wound healing and hair growth, but evidence for modern dressings over traditional ones is limited.
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January 2025 in “Advances in Wound Care” This study identified dual epithelial and mesenchymal traits in dermal sheath cells during wound repair, suggesting they could be targeted to enhance healing.
In this study, the researchers developed a biomimetic multilayer composite scaffold combining a decellularized amniotic membrane, fibroblast-laden collagen gel, and epidermal stem cells, which healed full-thickness skin wounds more quickly and effectively by regenerating hair follicles without scarring compared to Moropicin ointment.
10 citations
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August 2024 in “Chemical Engineering Journal” This study found that a microenvironment-responsive ATAN-Met hydrogel system improved infective diabetic wound healing by enhancing re-epithelialization, neurovascular and hair follicle regeneration, and exhibited antibacterial and immunoregulatory effects, activated beneficial pathways, and responded to glucose/ROS for drug release.
254 citations
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March 2023 in “Advanced Science” This study developed an all-natural hydrogel that promotes diabetic wound healing by converting pro-inflammatory M1 macrophages to anti-inflammatory M2 macrophages in a simple and biosafe manner.
March 2026 in “Chemical Engineering Journal” The hydrogel helps heal diabetic wounds by combining antibacterial, antioxidant, and immune-boosting effects.
June 2026 in “Materials Today Bio” This study reported that a decellularized porcine amniotic membrane hydrogel can alleviate inflammation and promote tissue repair in a UVB-induced skin inflammation model, suggesting its potential as a regenerative treatment for photodamage-associated skin injuries.
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July 2021 in “Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology” This review examines the regeneration capabilities of skin, oesophagus, and oral mucosa, highlighting the oral mucosa's unique scarless healing properties and the potential of cell therapy to improve scar reduction in wound healing.