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WOUND REPAIR AND REGENERATION
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 294-303Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2012.00789.x
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- Dutch Burns Foundation (Nederlandse Brandwonden Stichting) [05.101]
- VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam
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A major challenge for clinicians treating (arterio) venous leg ulcers is to decide between standard therapy and advanced interventions. Here, we developed a simple method to collect human material representative of the ulcer wound bed, which can be used to identify biomarkers for prognostic test development. Superficial surgical debridement was performed using a small vidal curette during the weekly visit to the outpatient clinic. Moist, easily removable debridement material essentially blood free (including necrotic and nonviable slough) was collected from the surface of the ulcer. The amount ranged from 5.5?mg to 78?mg material per ulcer. Seventeen cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors were extracted and analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (concentration range: 0.000578?ng/mg total protein). Notably, CXCL8 was by far the most abundant protein present. Inflammatory mediators were more abundant than anti-inflammatory mediators (e.g., interleukin (IL)-10 and transforming growth factor-beta 1). Bioactivity assays showed chronic wound extracts to be capable of stimulating fibroblast migration in a chemokine-dependent manner and also capable of stimulating healthy cells within skin substitutes to secrete wound healing mediators (CCL2, CXCL1, CXCL8, IL-6) in an IL-1a dependent manner. Collection of debridement tissue enables investigation of the ulcer environment in an easy noninvasive manner that may be suitable for prognostic test development.
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