Figure 7
From: Positional differences in the wound transcriptome of skin and oral mucosa
Time line of specific aspects of wound healing in mucosa and skin. The relative timing and abundance of inflammatory cytokines, neutrophils, macrophages, and angiogenesis is shown for mucosal and skin wounds, as well as the time of wound closure (arrows). Mucosal wounds close much more rapidly than skin; all other aspects of repair are temporally similar at the two sites. Overall, the magnitude of the response is much less in mucosa, suggesting that mucosa heals by a simpler restoration process than the inflammatory repair process observed in adult skin. Adapted from references [1, 2].