Discovery helps to heal wounds

A study of modern scientific information that may contribute to finding treatments to help heal the wounds, after being pointed to the role of a type of immune cells to slow down the process of closing the affected parts of the skin. And conducted research team - included specialists from the University of Loyola U.S. - study included laboratory experiments on mice in order to test the effect of immune cells - known as killer T cells, or cells (NKT), which has important functions in the fight against cancer cells and cells infected with viruses - the process of wound healing.


Said researcher Elizabeth Kovacs - out of surgery and president of the university team trials - "We have shown that the closure of wounds of early speed in the absence of cells, killer T (NKT)".


The results of the study, published in "Journal of surgical research" that the process of wound healing was slower in mice that possess cells (NKT), compared with mice that were deprived of the production of such cells.


According to the results show that the killer T cells was heading towards positions of the wounds, and slow down the process of healing.


He did not specify how the team after that slow down the killer T cells (NKT) wound healing, but he expressed his intention to conduct a study in the future, to evaluate the potential inhibition of these cells through the use of antibodies, in order to prevent it from slowing the recovery of the skin.