Reproducible strategy for excisional skin-wound-healing studies in mice

Matan Yampolsky, Ido Bachelet, Yaron Fuchs

Published: 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-023-00899-4

mouse wound healing

excisional assay

reproducibility

lineage tracing

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