Development of a cell based chronic wound bioassay
Impaired wound healing affects 3% of the population over 60 and costs over £1 billion annually in the UK. Chronic wounds are characterised by prolonged inflammation, impaired re-epithelialisation and defective extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling. Fibroblasts play an important role in th...
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Cardiff University
2008
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