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ReviewRegeneration (Oxford, England)2017

Macrophages and fibroblasts during inflammation and tissue repair in models of organ regeneration.

Anthony L Mescher

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Review in Regeneration (Oxford, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers.

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

109 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Macrophages orchestrate tail regeneration in lizardsFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  12. Putative muscle stem cells promoteProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. Regulation of macrophage transcriptional dynamics during acute and chronic wound repair.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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49 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Anthony L MescherDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine - Bloomington Indiana University Center for Developmental and Regenerative Biology Bloomington IN 47405 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3465-9589

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review provides a concise summary of the changing phenotypes of macrophages and fibroblastic cells during the local inflammatory response, the onset of tissue repair, and the resolution of inflammation which follow injury to an organ. Both cell populations respond directly to damage and present coordinated sequences of activation states which determine the reparative outcome, ranging from true regeneration of the organ to fibrosis and variable functional deficits. Recent work with mammalian models of organ regeneration, including regeneration of full-thickness skin, hair follicles, ear punch tissues, and digit tips, is summarized and the roles of local immune cells in these systems are discussed. New investigations of the early phase of amphibian limb and tail regeneration, including the effects of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory agents, are then briefly discussed, focusing on the transition from the normally covert inflammatory response to the initiation of the regeneration blastema by migrating fibroblasts and the expression of genes for limb patterning.

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amphibian limb regenerationfibroblastfibrosisinflammationmacrophagescar

Identifiers

PMID28616244
PMCPMC5469729

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