Swatting flies: modelling wound healing and inflammation in Drosophila

Aberrant wound healing can lead to a variety of human pathologies, from non-healing chronic wounds that can become dangerously infected, to exuberant fibrotic healing in which repair is accompanied by excessive inflammation. To guide therapeutic intervention, we need a better understanding of the fu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: William Razzell, Will Wood, Paul Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2011-09-01
Series:Disease Models & Mechanisms
Online Access:http://dmm.biologists.org/content/4/5/569