title: Tissue engineering of skin.
abstract: Each one of us is a self-organizing mass of multiple cell types. From fertilization of the embryo our tissue structures develop until an adult morphology is achieved. At that point our capacity for self-organization is directed to maintaining that morphology in the face of the insults of our daily life and the processes of aging. When a given insult overwhelms our capacity to repair by regeneration the result is scar repair.
authors.affiliation: Burns Service of Western Australia, Burn Injury Research Unit, University of Western Australia, McComb Research Foundation, Western Australia. fiona.wood@uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wood
mesh_terms: D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D044968:Regenerative Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D014945:Wound Healing