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Cellular and genetic analysis of wound healing in Drosophila larvae.
PLoS biology - 1 Aug 2004
Galko Michael J, Krasnow Mark A
Abstract excerpt
To establish a genetic system to study postembryonic wound healing, we characterized epidermal wound healing in Drosophila larvae. Following puncture wounding, larvae begin to bleed but within an hour a plug forms in the wound gap. Over the next couple of hours the outer part of the plug melanizes to form a scab, and epidermal cells surrounding the plug orient toward it and then fuse to form a syncytium....
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