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Wound Healing

Collagen Sealant for Wounds

V F Murphy< a> Sunday 27th July 2003

A team from Texas Agricultural Research Station reported a novel gel incorporating collagen for wound healing. The gel combines collagen with other materials, and speeds the closure of wounds, according to Dr Douglas Miller, one of the scientists working on the project.

Trials in rats showed comparable healing between untreated and treated wounds where injury ages were 6 and 3 days respectively, which the BBC expresses as a 50 improvement in wound closure. a 50 improvement in wound closure BB…

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Mice offer wound healing clues

From the BBC Tuesday 3rd June 2003

"Scientists are hoping that experiments on genetically-modified mice will produce ways to make human wounds heal better."

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The implications of the c-Jun pathway are most probably minor, but may certainly lead to better chronic wound treatments in the future. The chronic wound market has suffered since the demise of major skin tissue engineering companies Organogenesis Inc. and Advanced Tissue Sciences last year. Future strategies, it has been suggested, are likely to ha…