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The role of the skin microbiome in wound healing.

Yuyan YangJiuzuo HuangAng ZengXiao LongNanze YuXiao-Jun Wang
Published in: Burns & trauma (2024)
The efficient management of skin wounds for rapid and scarless healing represents a major clinical unmet need. Nonhealing skin wounds and undesired scar formation impair quality of life and result in high healthcare expenditure worldwide. The skin-colonizing microbiota contributes to maintaining an intact skin barrier in homeostasis, but it also participates in the pathogenesis of many skin disorders, including aberrant wound healing, in many respects. This review focuses on the composition of the skin microbiome in cutaneous wounds of different types (i.e. acute and chronic) and with different outcomes (i.e. nonhealing and hypertrophic scarring), mainly based on next-generation sequencing analyses; furthermore, we discuss the mechanistic insights into host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions during wound healing. Finally, we highlight potential therapeutic strategies that target the skin microbiome to improve healing outcomes.
Keyphrases
  • wound healing
  • soft tissue
  • healthcare
  • gene expression
  • adipose tissue
  • dna methylation
  • weight loss
  • hepatitis b virus
  • extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  • mechanical ventilation
  • cell free