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Wound Healing as We Age

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The world population is aging and the prevalence of age-related diseases is increasing. Cutaneous ulcers are a major group of pathologies in the elderly that have high morbidity and economic burden. In this chapter, we review our current knowledge of age-related mechanisms underlying wound-healing alterations that occur with age.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Jihane Abou Rahal & Dany Nassar

  2. Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Dany Nassar

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    Kenneth W. Miller

  3. Department Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Abou Rahal, J., Nassar, D. (2015). Wound Healing as We Age. In: Farage, M., Miller, K., Maibach, H. (eds) Textbook of Aging Skin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27814-3_143-1

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