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Ineffective skin wound healing is a significant source of morbidity and mortality. Roughly 6.5 million Americans experience chronically open wounds and the cost of treating these wounds numbers in the billions of dollars annually. In contrast, robust…

Diabetic patients are prone to developing myocardial fibrosis and suffer from decreased wound healing capabilities. The purpose of this study was to determine whether diabetes alters cardiac fibroblast activity in the myocardium in a 6-wk…

The field of tissue engineering remains one of the least explored areas of current meniscal research but holds great promise. In this investigation, meniscal fibrochondrocytes were isolated from fresh human meniscal tissue and seeded onto synthetic…