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Development and Characterisation of a Human Chronic Skin Wound Cell Line-Towards an Alternative for Animal Experimentation.
International journal of molecular sciences - 27 Mar 2018
Caley Matthew, Wall Ivan B, Peake Matthew, Kipling David, Giles Peter, Thomas David W, Stephens Phil
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Background: Chronic skin wounds are a growing financial burden for healthcare providers, causing discomfort/immobility to patients. Whilst animal chronic wound models have been developed to allow for mechanistic studies and to develop/test potential therapies, such systems are not good representations of the human chronic wound state. As an alternative, human chronic wound fibroblasts (CWFs) have permitted an...
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