The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Wound Repair

I. Preliminaries.- 1 Wound Repair: Overview and General Considerations.- 2 Provisional Matrix.- 3 Macrophage Involvement in Wound Repair, Remodeling, and Fibrosis.- 4 Resolution of Inflammation.- II. Growth Factors in Soft Tissue Healing.- 5 Epidermal Growth Factor and Transforming Growth Factor-?.- 6 Modulation of Wound Repair by Members of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Family.- 7 Role of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor in Vivo.- 8 Transforming Growth Factor-?.- III. New Tissue Formation: The Cutaneous Paradigm.- 9 Integrins in Wound Repair.- 10 Reepithelialization.- 11 Angiogenesis.- 12 Mechanisms of Parenchymal Cell Migration into Wounds.- 13 The Role of the Myofibroblast in Wound Healing and Fibrocontractive Diseases.- IV. Essentials of Tissue Remodeling.- 14 Proteinases and Tissue Remodeling.- 15 Proteoglycans and Their Role in Wound Repair.- 16 Collagens and the Reestablishment of Dermal Integrity.- 17 The Dermal-Epidermal Basement Membrane Zone in Cutaneous Wound Healing.- 18 Fetal Wound Healing and the Development of Antiscarring Therapies for Adult Wound Healing.