Nature Medicine
2, 284 - 285 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0396-284
Cuts and scrapes? Plasmin heals!Jean-Dominique Vassalli1
& Jean-Hilaire Saurat1, *
1Department of Morphology, University of Geneva Medical School 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland
*Department of Dermatology, University of Geneva Medical School 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland The healing of skin wounds is severely affected in mice with a targeted disruption of the plasminogen gene (pages 287−292).
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