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Nature Medicine 8, 560 - 561 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0602-560
The healing touch of epidermal T cells
Willi K. Born1 & Rebecca L. O'Brien1
- Department of Immunology National Jewish Medical and Research Center Denver, Colorado, USA e-mail: bornw@njc.org
Abstract
After skin wounding, tissue repair requires the division and growth of skin epithelial cells. A new study in mice shows that specialized T lymphocytes found in skin, epidermal 
T cells, are induced by wounding to secrete growth factors that accelerate wound healing.
Over the last decades, it has become clear that the immune system has an important role in wound repair. Defining exactly how immune cells and their factors influence tissue regeneration is a focus of current investigation.
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