Scratch Wound Healing Assay

Methods Mol Biol. 2020:2109:225-229. doi: 10.1007/7651_2019_259.

Abstract

Cell migration is a crucial step for wound healing. Assays able to evaluate cell migration are very useful to evaluate in vitro wound healing. Scratch wound assay creates a gap in confluent monolayer of keratinocytes to mimic a wound. The protocol of scratch wound is based on few steps: cell culture preparation, scratch wound assay, data acquisition, and data analysis.

Keywords: Cell migration; Data analysis; Healing assay; Scratch wound assay; Wound repair.

MeSH terms

  • Cell Culture Techniques / methods*
  • Cell Movement
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Keratinocytes / cytology*
  • Software
  • Wound Healing