Plaster own skin cells leads to better healing burns – Focus on News

Monday, 12. October 2015 – 9:07 Update: 13-10-2015 23:18

Prof. Dr. Esther Middelkoop, professor skin regeneration and wound healing:. “These results bring Netherlands a step closer to our common dream: burns heal without scarring. This is a prime example of effective investigation set up from the collection of the Burn Foundation.

To remove the burned tissue and transplanting healthy skin is a common and necessary treatment option for patients with large and deep burns. The disadvantage here is that this unfortunately often scarring. Medical researcher Kim Gardien, “We look for treatments that prevent or reduce these scars. Scars can namely be red and bumpy, itchy or provide contractions of the skin at the joints making movement impossible reconstructive and necessary. “

There is now a method has become available for patients with a large surface deep burns. With this method, the quality of scars can be improved. Researcher Kim Gardien focuses its research on the body’s epidermis cells. For this purpose, in the patients a small piece of healthy skin removed. From this isolate researchers epidermal cells, which are going to share in a seed tray.

Within about 12 days, there are sufficient cells present to bring to those on a much larger surface area of ​​a biodegradable material. This is then applied as a kind of patch over the skin graft to go. The great advantage of this method over traditional donor skin, is that the applied skin generates no rejection reaction in the body. These are body’s own cells, and the material on which the cells grow also does not produce immune response.

The results of the new treatment method showed that the wound heals faster and the thickness, flexibility, bumpiness, and color of the scar from the burn greatly improve