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Discovery Pinpoints Deregulated Immune Cell Recruitment that May Underlie Non-Healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Investigators at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, in collaboration with National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) researchers, demonstrate in a new study that the immune response may not be robust enough to heal chronic diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). This novel finding stands in contrast to earlier theories that