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Assessing Animal Models to Study Impaired and Chronic Wounds.

Shayan Saeed¹, Manuela Martins-Green¹

¹Department of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

|April 13, 2024

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Developing better models for chronic wound healing is crucial. Aged and obese db/db mice offer a promising model that mimics human chronic wound characteristics for effective treatment testing.

Keywords:

chronic wounds diabetes impaired healing wounds porcine pre-clinical models rodent wound healing

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Area of Science:

Wound healing research
Biomedical modeling
Chronic disease research

Background:

Chronic wounds affect millions, incurring significant costs and patient suffering.
Current treatments for chronic wounds are limited due to the complexity of wound healing.
Existing models do not fully replicate human chronic wound conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

To review current models for studying impaired and chronic non-healing wounds.
To highlight a promising new model for chronic wound research.
To emphasize the need for improved human-like chronic wound models.

Main Methods:

Assessment of various existing chronic wound models.
Highlighting a model using aged and obese db/db mice.
Analysis of chronic wound characteristics in the selected model.

Main Results:

Aged and obese db/db mice develop chronic wounds with human-like features.
These features include oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and impaired re-epithelialization.
The model also exhibits spontaneous multi-bacterial biofilm development.

Conclusions:

The aged and obese db/db mouse model shows significant promise for studying chronic wounds.
Further development of human-mimicking models is essential for testing novel treatments.
Improved models are critical for advancing the field of chronic wound care.