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ReviewTissue engineering. Part B, Reviews2022

Healing Mechanisms in Cutaneous Wounds: Tipping the Balance.

Adam J Singer

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Review in Tissue engineering. Part B, Reviews, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The dual role of the microbiome in chronic wound management.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026
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  6. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  19. Adoption of polyvinyl alcohol electrospinning materials for skin wound dressing.Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine · 2025
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  20. Evidence Supporting Conservative Scar Management Interventions Following Burn Injury: A Review Article.Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association · 2025
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam J SingerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4694-6152
Stony Brook School · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute and chronic cutaneous wounds pose a significant health and economic burden. Cutaneous wound healing is a complex process that occurs in four distinct, yet overlapping, highly coordinated stages: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. Postnatal wound healing is reparative, which can lead to the formation of scar tissue. Regenerative wound healing occurs during fetal development and in restricted postnatal tissues. This process can restore the wound to an uninjured state by producing new skin cells from stem cell reservoirs, resulting in healing with minimal or no scarring. Focusing on the pathophysiology of acute burn wounds, this review highlights reparative and regenerative healing mechanisms (including the role of cells, signaling molecules, and the extracellular matrix) and discusses how components of regenerative healing are being used to drive the development of novel approaches and therapeutics aimed at improving clinical outcomes. Important components of regenerative healing, such as stem cells, growth factors, and decellularized dermal matrices, are all being evaluated to recapitulate more closely the natural regenerative healing process. Impact Statement Acute wounds from thermal injury are common; they exert substantial physical and psychological effects on a patient and result in significant morbidity and mortality. This review provides a detailed overview of the mechanisms of reparative and regenerative wound healing; discusses the key cell types, signaling molecules, and molecular targets that influence these important biological pathways; and highlights current therapeutic approaches aimed at promoting regenerative wound healing. An increased understanding of the underlying mechanisms of reparative and regenerative healing will contribute to the development of innovative strategies for the clinical treatment of patients with severe burns.

Indexed as

BurnsSoft Tissue InjuriesCicatrixExtracellular MatrixHumansSkinWound Healingacute wound healinginflammatory responseregenerative healingregenerative medicinereparative healingscarringstem cells

Identifiers

PMID34915757
PMCPMC9587785
OpenAlexW4200287223

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