Toward Understanding Wound Repair Mechanism
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 17897
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Interests: wound repair of cell membrane; cytokinesis; cell migration; cytoskeleton; cell polarity; mechanical force; membrane trafficking; Dictyostelium
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Dear Colleagues,
In our body, cells and tissues are frequently wounded by chemical and physical damages. In addition, the stretch and contraction in muscles and hydrostatic pressure in the cardiovascular system frequently injure the cell membrane. A wounded cell membrane loses its barrier function, resulting in an influx of undesirable substances into the cell as well as a loss of cytoplasm. However, cells can rapidly detect and repair the wounded cell membrane. Defects in cell membrane repair may cause muscular dystrophy, diabetes, vitamin deficiencies, and inflammatory myopathy. Plant cells can also repair cell membranes. Thus, like DNA repair, wound repair is a physiologically vital phenomenon for living cells. The molecular mechanism of wound repair is highly regulated temporally and spatially, involving intracellular signaling, membrane remodeling, membrane trafficking, and cytoskeletal dynamics. Historically, on a cellular level, repair of the wounded cell membrane has been mainly studied, but recent studies have revealed that intracellular organelles also have repair mechanisms. Wound repair in the level of multicellular tissue has a common feature to single cells but also involves cell migration, cell division, and cell adhesion. This Special Issue of Cells intends to accept a wide range of wound repair mechanisms, their related interesting phenomena, and techniques for research.
Dr. Shigehiko Yumura
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- membrane resealing
- multicellular wound repair
- wound repair
- wound healing
- wound closure
- lesion removal
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