What is it about?
This article explains how immune memory in the skin helps wounds heal and protects against infection, but when uncontrolled, can cause chronic inflammation and scarring.
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Why is it important?
Understanding skin immune memory can help improve wound healing while preventing chronic wounds and excessive scarring.
Perspectives
Targeting skin immune memory offers new opportunities to enhance healing while reducing inflammation and fibrosis through personalized, skin-focused therapies.
Dr Zeinab Ghasemishahrestani
University of Cape Town
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This page is a summary of: Cutaneous Immune Memory: A Double-Edged Sword in Skin Repair and Fibrosis, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, October 2025, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2025.09.006.
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