Wound Repair and Regeneration

• Main Author: Allison Cowin (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Regeneration; Chronic wounds; Wound healing; Stem cells; Extracellular matrix; Inflammation; Remodeling; Scarring; Growth factors; Biomaterials
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Wounds are a largely unrecognized, spiraling epidemic that affect millions of people world-wide. They are complex and involve temporal and spatial involvement of many different cell types and tissue processes. Recent advances in our understanding of wound repair and regeneration, as well as the many...