Being older helps skin heal with less scarring, and now researchers know why

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine

A compound secreted in the bloodstream could be the key factor that causes wounds in older people to heal with less scarring than in younger people. The compound is called stromal cell-derived-factor-1 (SDF1), and researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showed that blocking it could influence scar formation and […]

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