Delayed wound healing in aged rats is associated with increased collagen gel remodeling and contraction by skin fibroblasts, not with differences in apoptotic or myofibroblast cell populations
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Wound Repair and Regeneration
- Vol. 9 (3), 223-237
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1524-475x.2001.00223.x
Abstract
Aging has been anecdotally reported to result in prolonged wound healing. Measurement of punch biopsy wound closure in young (4 month old) and old (36 month old) rats indicated there was a significan...This publication has 82 references indexed in Scilit:
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