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1293152

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
The care of chronic wounds has become a major health issue in developed countries because of their increasingly elderly populations. There is hope that progress made in understanding and producing growth factors will lead to their successful use to induce faster and better healing of chronic wounds. This report will discuss growth factors in the context of their use in chronic wounds, and will focus on the importance of the wound microenvironment in determining the interactions between growth factors and wounds. We believe that a greater understanding of the chronic wound microenvironment will be of benefit in the optimal use of growth factors. In published studies, we have found that wound fluid taken from acute wounds stimulates fibroblast and endothelial cell proliferation, whereas fluid obtained from chronic non-healing wounds inhibits the growth of fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and keratinocytes. In this report, we describe the effect of these two types of wound fluid on the synthesis of extracellular matrix components. We hypothesize that the chronic wound microenvironment is generally non-conducive to cell growth, and that this may prevent a truly successful use of topical growth factors in chronic wounds. Novel approaches in the delivery of growth factors to wounds may be necessary to overcome these obstacles.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0385-2407
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
667-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Growth factors and chronic wounds: the need to understand the microenvironment.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Florida 33101.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.