When someone suffers a heart attack, their heart is left permanently scarred and thus less capable of pumping blood. According to a new study, however, a protein injection could help undo such damage.

A Ludwig Cancer Research study using human tissue samples and mouse models has discovered that recurrent tumors of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) grow out of the fibrous ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Often considered a concept that draws from wound care and first aid, scar treatment has emerged as a niche market ...

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it. But over time, too much scarring can prevent nerves ...

The results of a study headed by Cedars-Sinai investigators have uncovered why some injured kidneys heal while others develop scarring (fibrosis) that can lead to kidney failure. The team’s research, ...

A new study in Burns & Trauma, published by Oxford University Press, reveals promising new strategies to prevent skin scarring after injuries. While scars are common when wounds heal, hypertrophic ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper uses a novel empirical approach, following the literature on hysteresis, to explore medium-term scarring of ...

Alexander Paping is a research associate at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany) in the Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’ as well as a practicing obstetrician in the Department of ...