Table of Contents
List of Contributorsvii
1 Stem Cell Regeneration and Repair – Overview 1Clement D. Marshall, Alessandra A. Moore, Michael T. Longaker, and H. Peter Lorenz
2 Cadherins as Central Modulators of Wound Repair 15Melissa Crawford and Lina Dagnino
3 Tight Junctions and Cutaneous Wound Healing 31Thomas Volksdorf and Johanna M. Brandner
4 The Role of Microvesicles in Cutaneous Wound Healing 43Alexandra Laberge and Véronique J. Moulin
5 Wound Healing and Microenvironment 67Elgin Türköz Uluer, Hafize Seda Vatansever, and Feyzan Őzdal Kurt
6 Wound Healing and the Non-cellular Microenvironment 79Hayley S. Ramshaw, Jasreen Kular, and Michael S. Samuel
7 Contribution of Adipose-Derived Cells to Skin Wound Healing 89Barbara Gawronska-Kozak, Joanna Bukowska, Xiying Wu, Amy Lin Strong, Trivia Frazier, Bruce A. Bunnell, and Jeffrey M. Gimble
8 Role of Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells in Wound Healing 103Feyzan Özdal Kurt, Hafize Seda Vatansever, and Elgin Türköz Uluer
9 Role of Vitamin D and Calcium in Epidermal Wound Repair 113Daniel D. Bikle, Chia-ling Tu, and Yuko Oda
10 Oral Mucosal Healing 125Luisa A. DiPietro and Megan Schrementi
11 Role of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells in Wound Healing: An Update from Isolation to Transplantation 133Selami Demirci, Ayşegül Doğan, and Fikrettin Şahin
12 The Hair Follicle as a Wound Healing Promoter and Its Application in Clinical Practice 149Francisco Jimenez, María Luisa Martínez, Eduardo Escario, and Ander Izeta
13 Impaired Wound Healing in Diabetic Ulcers: Accelerated Healing Through Depletion of Ganglioside 167Duncan Hieu M. Dam, Sophia A. Jelsma, and Amy S. Paller
14 Inflammation in Wound Repair: Role and Function of Inflammation in Wound Repair 177Amanda S. MacLeod and Jeffery T. Kwock
15 Inflammation, Wound Healing, and Fibrosis 195Shibnath Ghatak, Vincent C. Hascall, Ricardo Moreno Rodriguez, Roger R. Markwald, and Suniti Misra
16 The Potential Role of Photobiomodulation and Polysaccharide-Based Biomaterials in Wound Healing Applications 211Heidi Abrahamse, Sathish Sundar Dhilip Kumar, and Nicolette Nadene Houreld
17 Is Understanding Fetal Wound Repair the Holy Grail to Preventing Scarring? 225Olivier A. Branford and Kerstin J. Rolfe
18 Inflammation and Cancer 239Suniti Misra, Vincent C. Hascall, Roger R. Markwald, Paul E. O’Brien, and Shibnath Ghatak
Index 275