Functional genomics unique to week 20 post wounding in the deep cone/fat dome of the Duroc/Yorkshire porcine model of fibroproliferative scarring.

Hypertrophic scar was first described over 100 years ago; PubMed has more than 1,000 references on the topic. Nevertheless prevention and treatment remains poor, because 1) there has been no validated animal model; 2) human scar tissue, which is impossible to obtain in a controlled manner, has been...

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Main Authors: Loren H Engrav, Christopher K Tuggle, Kathleen F Kerr, Kathy Q Zhu, Surawej Numhom, Oliver P Couture, Richard P Beyer, Anne M Hocking, Gretchen J Carrougher, Maria Luiza C Ramos, Matthew B Klein, Nicole S Gibran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3080398?pdf=render