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- Title
Systemic Wound Healing Associated with local sub-Cutaneous Mechanical Stimulation.
- Authors
Nardini, Christine; Devescovi, Valentina; Liu, Yuanhua; Zhou, Xiaoyuan; Lu, Youtao; Dent, Jennifer E.
- Abstract
Degeneration is a hallmark of autoimmune diseases, whose incidence grows worldwide. Current therapies attempt to control the immune response to limit degeneration, commonly promoting immunodepression. Differently, mechanical stimulation is known to trigger healing (regeneration) and it has recently been proposed locally for its therapeutic potential on severely injured areas. As the early stages of healing consist of altered intra- and inter-cellular fluxes of soluble molecules, we explored the potential of this early signal to spread, over time, beyond the stimulation district and become systemic, to impact on distributed or otherwise unreachable injured areas. We report in a model of arthritis in rats how stimulations delivered in the subcutaneous dorsal tissue result, over time, in the control and healing of the degeneration of the paws' joints, concomitantly with the systemic activation of wound healing phenomena in blood and in correlation with a more eubiotic microbiome in the gut intestinal district.
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2016, p39043
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep39043