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ReviewJournal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association

Sugar-coating wound repair: a review of FGF-10 and dermatan sulfate in wound healing and their potential application in burn wounds.

Jennifer K Plichta, Katherine A Radek

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Review in Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Determining the concentration of golden sea cucumber (Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2026
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  13. The Antioxidant and In Vitro Wound Healing Activity ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  17. Galactosaminoglycans: Medical Applications and Drawbacks.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  20. Protective effects of systemic dermatan sulfate treatment in a preclinical model of radiation-induced oral mucositis.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer K PlichtaDepartment of Surgery, Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA.
Katherine A Radek
Loyola University Medical Center · US

Funding

TRAINING IN TRAUMA AND BURN RESEARCHT32GM008750 · NIGMS · LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO · PI CHOUDHRY, MASHKOOR A, GONZALEZ, RICHARD PAUL · 2000 to 2023
$2.9M
Linking Nicotinic Activation with Skin Innate Immunity and Atopic DermatitisR01AR061497 · NIAMS · LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO · PI RADEK, KATHERINE AMANDA · 2012 to 2017
$2.0M
Loyola Alcohol Research Center (LARC)P30AA019373 · NIAAA · LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO · PI KOVACS, ELIZABETH J. · 2009 to 2010
$832k
Dermatan sulfate and its role in tissue repairF32AR054220 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI RADEK, KATHERINE AMANDA · 2008 to 2009
$70k
NIAAA NIH HHS 1P30AA019373-010NIAAA NIH HHS P30 AA019373NIAMS NIH HHS F32 AR054220NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR061497NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008750NIGMS NIH HHS T32-GM008750-11
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thousands of patients suffer from burn injuries each year, yet few therapies have been developed to accelerate the wound healing process. Most fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) have been extensively evaluated but only a few have been found to participate in the wound healing process. In particular, FGF-10 is robustly increased in the wound microenvironment after injury and has demonstrated some ability to promote wound healing in vitro and in vivo. Glycosaminoglycans are linear carbohydrates that participate in wound repair by influencing cytokine/growth factor localization and interaction with cognate receptors. Dermatan sulfate (DS) is the most abundant glycosaminoglycan in human wound fluid and has been postulated to be directly involved in the healing process. Recently, the combination of FGF-10 and DS demonstrated the potential to accelerate wound healing via increased keratinocyte proliferation and migration. Based on these preliminary studies, DS may serve as a cofactor for FGF-10, and together they are likely to expedite the healing process by stimulating keratinocyte activity. As a specific subtype of wounds, the overall healing process of burn injuries does not significantly differ from other types of wounds, where optimal repair results in matrix regeneration and complete reepithelialization. At present, standard burn treatment primarily involves topical application of antimicrobial agents, while no routine therapies target acceleration of reepithelialization, the key to wound closure. Thus, this novel therapeutic combination could be used in conjunction with some of the current therapies, but it would have the unique ability to initiate wound healing by stimulating keratinocyte epithelialization.

Indexed as

BurnsCell ProliferationDermatan SulfateDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleFibroblast Growth Factor 10HumansInjury Severity ScoreKeratinocytesMaleRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRegenerationSensitivity and SpecificityTreatment OutcomeWound HealingDermatan SulfateFibroblast Growth Factor 10

Identifiers

PMID22561305
PMCPMC3348504
OpenAlexW2042811173

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