Sweet NETs, Bitter Wounds

Venizelos Papayannopoulos

doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2015.08.002

Sweet NETs, Bitter Wounds

Immunity. 2015 Aug 18;43(2):223-5. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.08.002.

Author

Venizelos Papayannopoulos¹

Affiliation

¹ Mill Hill laboratories, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW7 1AA, UK. Electronic address: veni.p@crick.ac.uk.

PMID: 26287680
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.08.002

Abstract

What causes slow wound healing rates in diabetes is poorly understood. Wong et al. (2015) report that an increase in the deployment of neutrophil extracellular traps associated with hyperglycemia slows down wound healing.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / metabolism*
Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / pathology*
Extracellular Traps / metabolism*
Female
Humans
Male
Neutrophils / metabolism*
Wound Healing*