During the 1990s and into the new millennium, significant progress in techniques and analysis at the molecular level has greatly advanced our understanding of the various wound healing processes. With the publication of this volume, recognized experts in the field provide a compendium of classic and contemporary protocols for those engaged in active lab studies of wound healing in humans and animals. This is a complete laboratory manual on wound healing methodology that should both augment current investigations and attract new scientific studies in the field. Scientifically informative and...

During the past decade, significant progress in molecular and cellular te- niques has greatly advanced our understanding of the wound healing p- cess. Many of these new techniques have been utilized in the context of more classic models of wound healing. The combination of new and classic approaches has allowed scientists to make exciting discoveries in the field of tissue repair, resulting in an explosion of information about the healing p- cess. Importantly, these new findings have great relevance beyond wound healing itself. The injury repair process cuts across many disciplines, exte- ing...