Human Wound Healing Ex Vivo Model with Focus on Molecular Markers

Methods Mol Biol. 2020:2154:249-254. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0648-3_21.

Abstract

Wound healing is a complex, multifactorial process that is divided in sequential and overlapping phases in order to restore the skin barrier. For the study of wound healing, different in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo models have been used in the past. Here we describe in detail the methodology of the human skin punch-in-a-punch ex vivo wound healing model.

Keywords: Ex vivo; Human skin; Wound healing.

MeSH terms

  • Biomarkers*
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Skin / metabolism
  • Skin / pathology
  • Wound Healing* / genetics

Substances

  • Biomarkers