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JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 82, Issue 8, Pages 621-626Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/154405910308200810
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wound healing; inflammation; mucosa; skin
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- NIAID NIH HHS [T32-AI07508] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM50875, GM55238] Funding Source: Medline
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Oral mucosa heals faster than does skin, yet few studies have compared the repair at oral mucosal and cutaneous sites. To determine whether the privileged healing of oral injuries involves a differential inflammatory phase, we compared the inflammatory cell infiltrate and cytokine production in wounds of equivalent size in oral mucosa and skin. Significantly lower levels of macrophage, neutrophil, and T-cell infiltration were observed in oral vs. dermal wounds. RT-PCR analysis of inflammatory cytokine production demonstrated that oral wounds contained significantly less IL-6 and KC than did skin wounds. Similarly, the level of the pro-fibrotic cytokine TGF-beta1 was lower in mucosal than in skin wounds. No significant differences between skin and mucosal wounds were observed for the expression of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 and the TGF-beta1 modulators, fibromodulin and LTBP-1. These findings demonstrate that diminished inflammation is a key feature of the privileged repair of oral mucosa.
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