Advances in Skin Substitutes—Potential of Tissue Engineered Skin for Facilitating Anti-Fibrotic Healing

Skin protects the body from exogenous substances and functions as a barrier to fluid loss and trauma. The skin comprises of epidermal, dermal and hypodermal layers, which mainly contain keratinocytes, fibroblasts and adipocytes, respectively, typically embedded on extracellular matrix made up of gly...

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Main Authors: Mathew Varkey, Jie Ding, Edward E. Tredget
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:Journal of Functional Biomaterials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2079-4983/6/3/547