Wound Healing, Fibrosis, and the Myofibroblast

A Historical and Biological Perspective

Giulio Gabbiani, Matteo Coen, Fabio Zampieri
Elsevier S&T
132 pages
ISBN: 9780323905466
October 2021

This book is the fruit of an interdisciplinary and international collaboration involving a historian of medicine (Dr. Zampieri), a physician (Dr. Coen), and a researcher (Prof. Gabbiani, world-renowned for his discovery of the myofibroblast). It aims to draw a concise yet complete description of the conceptual evolution of wound healing, fibrosis and fibrosis-related pathologies from antiquity to present time, as well as commenting on the role of the myofibroblast and the key cell type essential for tissue repair and fibrosis (from its identification in 1971 throughout its 50-years-old history).