The fetal wound healing: a review.
10.3349/ymj.2001.42.6.630
- Author:
Tai Suk ROH
1
;
Dong Kyun RAH
;
Beyoung Yun PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Institute for Human Tissue Restoration, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. rohts@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Fetal wound healing;
scar formation;
overview
- MeSH:
Animal;
Cell Adhesion Molecules/physiology;
Collagen/physiology;
Extracellular Matrix/physiology;
Fetus/*physiology;
Growth Substances/physiology;
Human;
*Wound Healing
- From:Yonsei Medical Journal
2001;42(6):630-633
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Fetal wound healing has drawn the attention of many researchers from diverse background and specialties. Fetal wound healing is unique and differs from postnatal healing in that fetal skin wounds heal rapidly without scar formation. If the mechanism underlying such phenomenon can be elucidated, it will be serve as a significant milestone in the study of wound healing. Furthermore, the implications for therapeutic applications in wound management and in diseases where scarring is the basic pathogenetic mechanism would be immense. Rather than to list the results and conflicting data of numerous studies, this article hopes to provide a general overview of the recent developments.
