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      Cutaneous wound healing.

      The New England journal of medicine
      Granulation Tissue, physiopathology, Humans, Inflammation, Neovascularization, Physiologic, Skin, injuries, Skin Physiological Phenomena, Skin, Artificial, Wound Healing, physiology

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          Differences in cellular infiltrate and extracellular matrix of chronic diabetic and venous ulcers versus acute wounds.

          In diabetic patients, wound healing is impaired. We studied the pathogenesis behind this clinical observation by characterizing the pattern of deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules and the cellular infiltrate in chronic (>8 wk) diabetic wounds, compared with chronic venous ulcers and an acute wound healing model. Punch biopsies were obtained from the chronic ulcer margins and control samples were collected from upper leg skin 5, 19, 28 d and 12 and 18 mo postwounding (p.w.). T cells, B cells, plasma cells, granulocytes and macrophages, and the ECM molecules fibronectin (FN), chondroitin sulfate (CS), and tenascin (TN) were visualized using immunohistochemical techniques. Expression of FN, CS, and TN was detected in dermal tissue early in normal wound healing (5-19 d p.w.). Abundant staining was seen 3 mo p.w., returning to prewounding levels after 12-18 mo p.w. In the dermis of chronic diabetic and venous ulcers with a duration of 12 mo or more, a prolonged presence of these ECM molecules was noted. Compared with normal wound healing: (i) the CD4/CD8 ratio in chronic wounds was significantly lower (p < 0.0027) due to a relatively lower number of CD4+ T cells; (ii) a significantly higher number of macrophages was present in the edge of both type of chronic ulcers (p < 0.001 versus day 29 p.w.); and (iii) more B cells and plasma cells were detected in both type of chronic wounds compared with any day in the acute wound healing model (p < 0.04 for CD20+ and p < 0.01 for CD79a+ cells). These data indicate that important differences exist in the cellular infiltrate and ECM expression patterns of acute, healing versus chronic wounds, which may be related to the nonhealing status of chronic wounds.
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            Expression of vascular permeability factor (vascular endothelial growth factor) by epidermal keratinocytes during wound healing

            Persistent microvascular hyperpermeability to plasma proteins even after the cessation of injury is a characteristic but poorly understood feature of normal wound healing. It results in extravasation of fibrinogen that clots to form fibrin, which serves as a provisional matrix and promotes angiogenesis and scar formation. We present evidence indicating that vascular permeability factor (VPF; also known as vascular endothelial growth factor) may be responsible for the hyperpermeable state, as well as the angiogenesis, that are characteristic of healing wounds. Hyperpermeable blood vessels were identified in healing split-thickness guinea pig and rat punch biopsy skin wounds by their capacity to extravasate circulating macromolecular tracers (colloidal carbon, fluoresceinated dextran). Vascular permeability was maximal at 2-3 d, but persisted as late as 7 d after wounding. Leaky vessels were found initially at the wound edges and later in the subepidermal granulation tissue as keratinocytes migrated to cover the denuded wound surface. Angiogenesis was also prominent within this 7-d interval. In situ hybridization revealed that greatly increased amounts of VPF mRNA were expressed by keratinocytes, initially those at the wound edge, and, at later intervals, keratinocytes that migrated to cover the wound surface; occasional mononuclear cells also expressed VPF mRNA. Secreted VPF was detected by immunofluoroassay of medium from cultured human keratinocytes. These data identify keratinocytes as an important source of VPF gene transcript and protein, correlate VPF expression with persistent vascular hyperpermeability and angiogenesis, and suggest that VPF is an important cytokine in wound healing.
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              Actin cables and epidermal movement in embryonic wound healing.

              Skin wounds in embryos heal rapidly and perfectly. Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud, its response to wounding is to close over the lesion, rather than to gape more widely. In adult wounds, the epidermis seems to migrate by means of lamellipodia, crawling over the exposed connective tissue. But in embryonic wounds we do not see lamellipodia. The epidermis at the edge of the wound looks smooth, as though under a circumferential tension. Here we show that a cable of filamentous actin appears to run continuously around most of the wound margin. It is confined to the single row of basal cells at the free edge of the epidermis. We suggest that the actin cable acts as a contractile 'purse string' to close up the embryonic wound.
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