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Emerging topics in cutaneous wound repair
Author(s) -
Valacchi Giuseppe,
Zanardi Iacopo,
Sticozzi Claudia,
Bocci Velio,
Travagli Valter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06636.x
Subject(s) - wound healing , medicine , intensive care medicine , tissue repair , disease , surgery , bioinformatics , pathology , biology , biomedical engineering
The intervention strategies in various types of skin wounds include several treatment programs that depend on the identified disease. Several factors such as aging, defective nutrition, traumatism, atherosclerosis, and diabetes may contribute to the formation of a wound that has no tendency to heal due to a defective and complicated repair process. The numerous advances in the understanding of the wound‐healing process in both acute and chronic lesions have been recently described. The purpose of this paper is to describe relatively new approaches as viable alternatives to current wound‐healing therapies. The future challenges for both the best targeting and optimization of these potential treatments are also described.