A physics perspective on wound healing (IMAGE)

Université de Genève

A physics perspective on wound healing

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Fluorescent microscopy image of a proliferating cell front, whose edge is indicated in green. The rat epithelial cells, with cytoplasm (blue) and nuclei (red), form a 2-dimensional culture which can be used to model wound healing.

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© Guillaume Rapin, UNIGE

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