Cutaneous wound healing assay is important to address many key questions including (1) migration ability of different cells; (2) communication between the different cell types such as keratinocytes, fibroblasts, and immune cells; (3) understanding the cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous function(s) of the different cells; and (4) gene regulation in healing processes. Wound healing studies can be used to test new treatment modalities, function of new drugs/compounds, and stem cell-based therapies on the different stages of healing and for accelerating wound healing in patients with compromised healing. In this chapter, we have described a simple step-by-step protocol to generate full-thickness cutaneous wounds in the dorsal skin of mice, followed by collecting the post-wounding biopsied materials on specific days for histological and immunohistochemical analyses and for RNA and protein extractions.
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Ganguli-Indra, G. (2014). Protocol for cutaneous wound healing assay in a murine model. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1210, 151–159. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1435-7_12
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