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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2015-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Functional Biomaterials |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2079-4983/6/3/547 |