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Reversing stratification during wound healing

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The involvement of proliferation and migration in epidermal healing has long been recognized, but three studies now reveal how a variety of individual cell behaviours achieve a collective epithelial response, and how diverse repair routes are taken by cells of different origins.

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Figure 1: Cell behaviours in wound-responding epidermis.

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Headon, D. Reversing stratification during wound healing. Nat Cell Biol 19, 595–597 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3545

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