title: The wound healing chronicles.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Willenborg and colleagues uncover the timeline of monocyte/macrophage involvement during sequential phases of skin wound healing. The CCR2-mediated recruitment of a vascular endothelial growth factor A(VEGF-A)–expressing inflammatory monocyte subset is critical for early vascular sprouting, while epidermal-derived VEGF-A mediates vascularization in the late wound healing phases (see figure).
authors: VIB-Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
authors: Jo A
authors: JA
authors: Van Ginderachter