Schultz, J.* ; Patel, P.A.* ; Aires, R.* ; Wissing, L.* ; Glatte, P.* ; Seifert, M.* ; Gentzel, M.* ; Fitze, G.* ; Doyle, A.M.* ; Sandoval-Guzmán, T.
Human fingertip regeneration follows clinical phases with distinct proteomic signatures.
npj Reg. Med. 10:51 (2025)
Distal injuries in human fingertips can regenerate almost fully, yet the process of human fingertip regeneration has hardly been characterized on a cellular and molecular level. A silicone finger cap, comprising a puncturable reservoir, was used to treat 22 human fingertip amputations. In all patients, subcutaneous tissue, nailbed and skin regenerated with excellent outcomes. Through the clinical assessment of the wounds, the regenerative process was divided into four distinct phases. Proteomic data from wound fluid samples collected at regular intervals, confirmed robust and unbiasedly distinct proteomic signatures, characteristic processes, and active regulatory networks in each phase. Moreover, this human dataset provides important insights, showing clear divergences from findings in regenerative animal models. The longitudinal and comprehensive analysis presented here unveils the complex orchestration of four clinically and proteomically-distinct phases of human fingertip regeneration. Further analyses of this proteomic data will allow for the identification of candidates orchestrating human fingertip regeneration and serving as a framework for comparative and regenerative medicine studies. This clinical trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03089060 on March 17, 2017.
Impact Factor
Scopus SNIP
Web of Science
Times Cited
Scopus
Cited By
Altmetric
Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Typ der Hochschulschrift
Herausgeber
Schlagwörter
Conservative Management; Limb Regeneration; Mass-spectrometry; Tip Injuries; Amputation; Expression; Reconstruction; S100a8/a9; Proteins; Platform
Keywords plus
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2025
Prepublished im Jahr
0
HGF-Berichtsjahr
2025
ISSN (print) / ISBN
2057-3995
e-ISSN
2057-3995
ISBN
Bandtitel
Konferenztitel
Konferzenzdatum
Konferenzort
Konferenzband
Quellenangaben
Band: 10,
Heft: 1,
Seiten: ,
Artikelnummer: 51
Supplement: ,
Reihe
Verlag
Nature Publishing Group
Verlagsort
London
Tag d. mündl. Prüfung
0000-00-00
Betreuer
Gutachter
Prüfer
Topic
Hochschule
Hochschulort
Fakultät
Veröffentlichungsdatum
0000-00-00
Anmeldedatum
0000-00-00
Anmelder/Inhaber
weitere Inhaber
Anmeldeland
Priorität
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Institute of Pancreatic Islet Research (IPI)
POF Topic(s)
90000 - German Center for Diabetes Research
Forschungsfeld(er)
PSP-Element(e)
A-502600-001
Förderungen
Freestate of Saxony under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Lnder
Medical Faculty C. G. Carus, Technical University Dresden
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/EFRE)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
German Federal Government
Copyright
Erfassungsdatum
2025-11-07