Cicatrix

Known as: Scarring, SCAR, Scar NOS 
The fibrous tissue that replaces normal tissue during the process of WOUND HEALING.
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2007
Review
2007
Formation and function of the myofibroblast during tissue repair.
  • Boris Hinz
  • The Journal of investigative dermatology
  • 2007
It is generally accepted that fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation represents a key event during wound healing and tissue… (More)
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
Surgery without scars: report of transluminal cholecystectomy in a human being.
HYPOTHESIS Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) provides the potential for performance of incisionless… (More)
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Autologous skeletal myoblast transplantation for severe postinfarction left ventricular dysfunction.
OBJECTIVES This phase I trial was designed to assess the feasibility and safety of autologous skeletal myoblast transplantation… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Heart regeneration in zebrafish.
Cardiac injury in mammals and amphibians typically leads to scarring, with minimal regeneration of heart muscle. Here, we… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Linear ablation lesions for control of unmappable ventricular tachycardia in patients with ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
BACKGROUND Conventional activation mapping is difficult without inducible, stable ventricular tachycardia (VT). METHODS AND… (More)
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
Leukocyte Infiltration, Neuronal Degeneration, and Neurite Outgrowth after Ablation of Scar-Forming, Reactive Astrocytes in Adult Transgenic Mice
Reactive astrocytes adjacent to a forebrain stab injury were selectively ablated in adult mice expressing HSV-TK from the Gfap… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Extrapulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (inflammatory pseudotumor). A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 84 cases.
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) or inflammatory pseudotumor is a spindle cell proliferation of disputed nosology, with a… (More)
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1995
Highly Cited
1995
Apoptosis mediates the decrease in cellularity during the transition between granulation tissue and scar.
Granulation tissue formation and contraction is an important step of second intention wound healing. Granulation tissue develops… (More)
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Circulating fibrocytes define a new leukocyte subpopulation that mediates tissue repair.
BACKGROUND The host response to tissue injury requires a complex interplay of diverse cellular, humoral, and connective tissue… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Reduction of neurite outgrowth in a model of glial scarring following CNS injury is correlated with the expression of inhibitory molecules on reactive astrocytes.
The extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules chondroitin-6-sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) and cytotactin/tenascin (CT), present on… (More)
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