TY - JOUR
T1 - A Fibrocontractive Mechanochemical Model of Dermal Wound Closure Incorporating Realistic Growth Factor Kinetics
AU - Murphy, Kelly E.
AU - Hall, Cameron L.
AU - Maini, Philip K.
AU - McCue, Scott W.
AU - McElwain, D. L. Sean
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUK-C1-013-04
Acknowledgements: This research is primarily supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP0878011), the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, and by the Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. PKM was partially supported by a Queensland University of Technology Adjunct Professorship and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. This publication was based on work supported in part by Award No. KUK-C1-013-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2012/1/13
Y1 - 2012/1/13
N2 - Fibroblasts and their activated phenotype, myofibroblasts, are the primary cell types involved in the contraction associated with dermal wound healing. Recent experimental evidence indicates that the transformation from fibroblasts to myofibroblasts involves two distinct processes: The cells are stimulated to change phenotype by the combined actions of transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) and mechanical tension. This observation indicates a need for a detailed exploration of the effect of the strong interactions between the mechanical changes and growth factors in dermal wound healing. We review the experimental findings in detail and develop a model of dermal wound healing that incorporates these phenomena. Our model includes the interactions between TGFβ and collagenase, providing a more biologically realistic form for the growth factor kinetics than those included in previous mechanochemical descriptions. A comparison is made between the model predictions and experimental data on human dermal wound healing and all the essential features are well matched. © 2012 Society for Mathematical Biology.
AB - Fibroblasts and their activated phenotype, myofibroblasts, are the primary cell types involved in the contraction associated with dermal wound healing. Recent experimental evidence indicates that the transformation from fibroblasts to myofibroblasts involves two distinct processes: The cells are stimulated to change phenotype by the combined actions of transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) and mechanical tension. This observation indicates a need for a detailed exploration of the effect of the strong interactions between the mechanical changes and growth factors in dermal wound healing. We review the experimental findings in detail and develop a model of dermal wound healing that incorporates these phenomena. Our model includes the interactions between TGFβ and collagenase, providing a more biologically realistic form for the growth factor kinetics than those included in previous mechanochemical descriptions. A comparison is made between the model predictions and experimental data on human dermal wound healing and all the essential features are well matched. © 2012 Society for Mathematical Biology.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597267
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11538-011-9712-y
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859213144&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11538-011-9712-y
DO - 10.1007/s11538-011-9712-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 22246694
SN - 0092-8240
VL - 74
SP - 1143
EP - 1170
JO - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
JF - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
IS - 5
ER -