Why Do Promising Wound Therapies Fail?

Is a histologically hostile environment causing promising treatments for chronic wounds to fail? My coauthor and I tackle this question in a recent review for Nature Reviews Endocrinology.

 

As we say in the review, “As with so many other areas in medicine, the field of tissue repair and wound healing is littered with early-stage promise in preclinical models followed by late-stage disappointment in human trials.”1 If we understand that the wound environment is histologically hostile, many of the types of treatments we have endeavored to use in this area come into question … read more