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Development, Vol 110, Issue 3 671-680, Copyright © 1990 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Ontogenetic transition of wound healing pattern in rat skin occurring at the fetal stage

S Ihara, Y Motobayashi, E Nagao and A Kistler
Department of Plastic Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.

Full-thickness excisional wounds were made in the dorsal skin of rat fetuses at day 16 and day 18 of gestation. A small patch of skin surrounding the open wound was cut out, mounted on a plastic ring and incubated in an organ culture system. In the presence of serum, the open wound in the day-16 fetal skin closed within three days of culture. During the wound-closure process, no new structures were formed in the wound space, and no conspicuous changes were noted in the histological architecture of the surrounding skin during culture, indicating that the wound closure may result from a centripetal movement of the surrounding skin only. In contrast, the size of the open wound in the day-18 fetal skin remained almost unchanged for one week, but a thin acellular network spread over the wound space within one day of culture. The predominant component of the network was cross-linked fibrin, as disclosed by scanning electron microscopy and sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by immunoblotting. The network served as a scaffold for the ingrowth of fibroblast-like cells. These stage-dependent differences in fetal wound healing were consistent with an in vivo study showing that the day-16 wound was covered with the surrounding skin itself, whereas the day-18 wound was covered with newly formed epidermis and invaded by inflammatory cells. The present investigation strongly indicates the prenatal occurrence of a fetal-to-adult transition in the wound-healing pattern of rat skin.


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