Open AccessThe fetal wound healing: a review
Author(s) -
Tai Suk Roh,
Dong Kyun Rah,
Beyoung Yun Park
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
yonsei medical journal/yonsei medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1976-2437
pISSN - 0513-5796
DOI - 10.3349/ymj.2001.42.6.630
Subject(s) - wound healing , medicine , milestone , mechanism (biology) , intensive care medicine , fetus , surgery , bioinformatics , biology , pregnancy , philosophy , genetics , archaeology , epistemology , history
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.