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The chemical manipulation of biological wounds has a long history. Much of the work in the control of wound healing has come from our colleagues in the field of plastic surgery. I quote from a 1973 paper by Peacock, “Scar tissue seldom, if ever, becomes a significant health hazard in animals. Surface scars in animals become almost invisible; hypertrophic scars and keloids simply cannot be produced in fur bearing species” (Peacock 1973). Research in wound healing has thus required the use of poorly analogous animal models and human tissue culture experiments.
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Herschler, J., Kay, J.S., Litin, B.S., Chvapil, M. (1987). Drug Delivery of Antimetabolites as Adjuncts to Glaucoma Filtration Surgery: Preliminary Clinical Experience. In: Krieglstein, G.K. (eds) Glaucoma Update III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71785-7_31
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