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Genetic analysis of a mammalian wound-healing trait.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Sept 1998
McBrearty B A, Clark L D, Zhang X M, Blankenhorn E P, Heber-Katz E
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Wound healing of mammalian tissue is an essential process in the maintenance of body integrity. The general mechanism of wound healing usually studied in adult mammals is repair, in contrast to the regeneration seen in more primitive vertebrates. We recently have discovered that MRL/MpJ mice, unlike all other strains of mice tested, undergo rapid and complete wound closure that resembles regeneration....
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