/sci/ - Science & Math

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I made a thread about this but, perhaps as expected, the replies are dogshit. 4chan filters some of my links as spam but the paper is open access titled:

"Disrupting biological sensors of force promotes tissue regeneration in large organisms"

The research is rather promising. Wounds in pigs were healed in such a way that scarring was noticeably less. A histogram of the skin was taken and they had real statistical differences between wounds healed with this compound (VS-6062)
and healed with normal methods.

Im curious about how this would apply to already existing scars. In my head you could just take a scarred person, excise a portion of scar tissue surrounded by normal skin, put the VS-6062 Hydrogel on it, bandage them up and call it a day.

However, at least to me it does beg an interesting question. Firstly can you just bandage up an open wound and send a patient off? Sure, it's not best practice, but can it be done without high likelihood of infection?

Normally you'd stitch a wound. The problem I have with this is that it seems like to remove extensive scarring, you'd have to stitch a bunch of wounds. And my understanding is that if you continue to remove skin (which is what stitches do is bring healthy skin together so avscar is small among other things) eventually the skin will just get too tight and constrain movement or rip.

Would it be like a