A fractured leg bone
heals in normal mice (left), but mice lacking the protein PlGF have globs of cartilage (red).
Not exact matches
Normal mice saw benefits, too: Muscles and pancreas cells
healed better
in...
Normal mice saw benefits, too: Muscles and pancreas cells
healed better
in middle - aged
mice that got rejuvenation treatments than
in mice that did not.
The study compared intestinal wound
healing in two groups of
mice: 1) typical
mice (wild type) found
in nature and 2)
mice genetically deficient
in the
healing factor IL - 10, specifically
in macrophages, which impairs their ability to have
normal wound repair.
Skin injuries
in mice that have been bred to lack DETCs take much longer than
normal to
heal.
To investigate the role of FOX01
in wound
healing, Graves and colleagues bred
mice that lacked the protein
in their keratinocytes and then observed the wound
healing process
in these
mice compared to
mice with
normal FOX01.
When the researchers induced wounds
in these
mice, they found that the
mice without TSP2
healed significantly better and faster than other
mice that had diabetes along with
normal levels of TSP2.