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Demonstration of the Rat Ischemic Skin Wound Model
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2015
The rat, due to its size, availability, and rather docile behavior, has been utilized as a research model for many years. The goal of this protocol is to utilize the rat as an ischemic skin wound healing model to provide valuable insight into the pathophysiology of chronic wounds.
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A Murine Skin Wound Infection Model to Study the Immune Response against a Bacterial Pathogen
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2025
This video demonstrates a technique to generate a murine model of skin wound infection. Upon infecting mice — engineered to express a fluorescent protein in neutrophils — with a genetically modified bioluminescent Staphylococcus aureus — a pathogenic bacteria. The bacterial burden at the infection site and the neutrophil recruitment dynamics can be studied using whole animal imaging.
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Murine Model of Wound Healing
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2013
A murine model of cutaneous wound healing that can be used to assess therapeutic compounds in physiological and pathophysiological settings.
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A Murine Model of a Burn Wound Reconstructed with an Allogeneic Skin Graft
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2020
The aim of this study was to develop a murine model of burn wound healing. A thermal burn was induced on the dorsal skin of mice using a preheated brass template. Burned tissue was debrided and overlaid with a skin graft harvested from the tail of a genetically similar donor mouse.
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Generation of a Three-dimensional Full Thickness Skin Equivalent and Automated Wounding
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2015
The goal of this protocol is to build up a three-dimensional full thickness skin equivalent, which resembles natural skin. With a specifically constructed automated wounding device, precise and reproducible wounds can be generated under maintenance of sterility.
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In a murine skin wound, healing phases overlap rather than occur as isolated steps. Hemostasis first limits blood loss, while inflammation clears damaged material. At the same time, repair-associated cells begin rebuilding tissue, and later extracellular-matrix remodeling strengthens the repaired area. This overlap allows researchers to examine how early immune activity influences subsequent regeneration and scar formation.
Keratinocytes and fibroblasts contribute to different structural aspects of repair. Keratinocytes help restore the skin surface through re-epithelialization, whereas fibroblasts participate in rebuilding underlying tissue. Granulation tissue and angiogenesis provide additional indicators of repair progress. Tracking these features separately helps distinguish surface closure from deeper tissue reconstruction, rather than treating wound closure as a single outcome.
Genes and immune signals can alter the balance among inflammation, regeneration, and remodeling. A murine skin wound therefore provides a setting for testing whether a biological factor changes the timing or extent of repair. Disease conditions can also modify these responses. Comparing outcomes under different genetic, signaling, or disease contexts helps connect molecular influences with visible tissue-level changes.
Standardization is central to creating comparable murine skin wound experiments. Researchers produce wounds using a consistent design and then follow them over time. The workflow links the initial injury with measurements of closure, re-epithelialization, granulation tissue, angiogenesis, and scar formation. Consistent wound creation and repeated assessment make differences between experimental conditions easier to attribute to the factor being studied.
Monitoring several endpoints gives a more complete picture than measuring closure alone. Closure indicates how the visible wound changes, while re-epithelialization assesses restoration of the surface. Granulation tissue and angiogenesis reflect rebuilding within the wound, and scar formation relates to later remodeling. Together, these observations help identify whether an intervention affects early repair, tissue reconstruction, or long-term organization.
Researchers apply this model to investigate how genes, immune signals, therapies, and disease conditions influence repair in a living organism. Its value lies in connecting these factors with coordinated tissue responses rather than examining only one isolated cellular event. Results can support evaluation of potential treatments and clarify biological processes relevant to human skin injury.
Biologically, the model links inflammation with regeneration and extracellular-matrix remodeling in the same healing response. That connection is important because successful repair requires more than rapid surface closure; the tissue must also rebuild and strengthen. By comparing these outcomes across conditions, investigators can study why healing responses differ and identify mechanisms that may be relevant to human wound repair.