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RIU: Anaesthetized the animals, participated in wound creation and helped in drafting the manuscript.
In the mouse epidermis, a type of resident skin T cell known as dendritic epidermal T cells (DETCs) are prompt to respond to skin injury, participate in wound healing (Jameson et al. 2002), and fight against tumor formation.
Epithelial cells participate in wound healing by covering wounds, but also as important mediators of wound healing processes.
The coincident accumulation of LRCs and extension of K15 expression in the wound site suggests that the putative stem cells participate in wound healing and may play an important role in the healing process.
In light of our findings and of the newly uncovered role of endocytosis in PM repair, it will be of great interest to determine whether these muscle-specific proteins participate in wound resealing by facilitating caveolar assembly/internalization, and lesion removal by endocytosis.
For example, human skin fibroblasts can maintain regional Hox gene expression, indicative of different positional identities66, different dermal mouse fibroblast populations participate in wound healing67, and proximal-distal differences in fibroblasts are maintained during mouse digit tip regeneration68.
Previously, palladin was shown to be rapidly upregulated in activated myofibroblasts that participate in wound closure in the skin [13].
Similar to observations in mice, skin-resident Vδ1+ γδ T cells in humans produce cytokines and growth factors after activation and participate in wound repair [19].
Typical filopodia are F-actin-based cell extensions involved in sensory and exploratory functions of the cellular environment and participate in wound healing, invasion, chemotaxis, and cell-to-cell signaling [19].
