Wound repair at a glance

This article is part of a Minifocus on collective cell migration. For further reading, please see related articles: `Mechanisms of collective cell migration at a glance' by Olga Ilina and Peter Friedl (J. Cell Sci.122, 3203-3208) and `Collective cell migration in development' by Cornelis Weijer (J. Cell Sci.122, 3215-3223).Wound repair is an essential physiological process that is important for tissue homeostasis, but it can be impaired in disease and contributes to numerous pathologies. The wound healing process, particularly in skin, has been well characterised histologically in studies extending back more than 100 years. Skin is a complex tissue (reviewed by Kanitakis, 2002), and thus a `full-thickness'…

• WT
  Wellcome Trust
• CR
  Cancer Research UK
• UO
  University of Bristol
• ET
  Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
• MR
  Medical Research Council