Tissue Repair: Wound Healing

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Tissue repair is a process of wound healing. It occurs in our body all the time; we just don’t take notice because it is a process not seen by the human eye. However, many magical things happen throughout our body that we cannot see. The body’s tissue repair process is one of those magical things. It is with our daily regular activities that our cells in the stratum corneum of the epidermis are shedding daily. We constantly replace our cells in this layer and lucky for us, our epithelial tissues are fully able to regenerate due to our stem cells. Our other tissue layers may not be so lucky.
In our epithelial tissue our cells can replace themselves, so even though we lose cells on a regular basis due to stress, heat, and our other rubbing and

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