Anagen hair follicles transplanted into mature human scars remodel fibrotic tissue

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• who: Magdalena Plotczyk from the surgery, most patients heal with narrow scars while a small number of patients (147%) heal with post-operating scar widening55, which we used in our study. An additional patient with a split-thickness skin graft (STSG) scar on the thigh was recruited to validate our findings (Supplementary Fig., b). An equal proportion of follicular units with, and , hair fibres were first harvested from the donor site (occipital scalp) with , mm punch biopsies by means of the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) technique and cleaned from the attached adipose tissue. Follicular units with all . . .
  

   

  

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