Wound care gets very interesting if you move away from casual observations or intervention comparisons. This has become easier the last decade, especially the “omic-type” diagnostic tools allow for analysis of large and complex systems. This enables us to move away from the trial and error type of research and look in depth into the wound. In general wound care articles mention genes or proteins. Since genes and proteins are a major part of processes regulation in the body it makes sense to unravel the way they operate in regenerating tissue. Freely quoting Goethe: All living things are connected if you do not see the connection you have not looked good enough. So we should be able to connect the dots, amongst others by reading literature or doing research. The knowledge in literature is fragmented. Luckily there are tools available to explore the context of the information: The site reactome shows how the processes at a basic level are organised and thus allows us to connect at least some of the dots. The plug in ferret provides depth and backround to the articles in pubmed etc. Both are tools for our endeavour to understand the incoherence of current wound care research.
http://www.reactome.org/
http://www.ferret.ai/