ReviewInternational wound journal2017
Epidermal grafting for wound healing: a review on the harvesting systems, the ultrastructure of the graft and the mechanism of wound healing.
Review in International wound journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hydrogel dressings for donor sites of split-thickness skin grafts.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Optimizing Wound Healing in Radial Forearm Donor Sites: A Comparative Study of Ulnar-Based Flap and Split-Thickness Skin Grafting.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Plant-Derived B-CGT Hydrogel Accelerates Diabetic Wound Healing Through Multitarget Modulation of Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Tissue Remodeling.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Photobiomodulation with Blue Light on Wound Healing: A Scoping Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Skin grafting treatment of adolescent lower limb avulsion injury.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Review
- Creation of skin grafts from traumatic avulsed skin.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Epidermal graft encourages wound healing by down-regulation of gap junctional protein and activation of wound bed without graft integration as opposed to split-thickness skin graft.International wound journal · 2021Article
- Immune tolerance of allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation supports donor epidermal grafting of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa chronic wounds.The British journal of dermatology · 2021Article
- Comparative study on the donor site aesthetic outcome between epidermal graft and split-thickness skin graft.International wound journal · 2019Article
- Biomaterials and engineered microenvironments to control YAP/TAZ-dependent cell behaviour.Nature materials · 2018Review
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Epidermal grafting for wound healing involves the transfer of the epidermis from a healthy location to cover a wound. The structural difference of the epidermal graft in comparison to the split-thickness skin graft and full-thickness skin graft contributes to the mechanism of effect. While skin grafting is an epidermal transfer, little is known about the precise mechanism of wound healing by epidermal graft. This paper aims to explore the evolution of the epidermal graft harvesting system over the last five decades, the structural advantages of epidermal graft for wound healing and the current hypotheses on the mechanism of wound healing by epidermal graft. Three mechanisms are proposed: keratinocyte activation, growth factor secretion and reepithelialisation from the wound edge. We evaluate and explain how these processes work and integrate to promote wound healing based on the current in vivo and in vitro evidence. We also review the ongoing clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of epidermal graft for wound healing. The epidermal graft is a promising alternative to the more invasive conventional surgical techniques as it is simple, less expensive and reduces the surgical burden for patients in need of wound coverage.
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