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IT is generally believed that the absence of mitotic activity in migrating epithelial cells is one of the characteristic features of repair in epithelia. Migration alone is held to be responsible for epithelialization in the early stages of healing. Increased mitotic activity occurs later at some distance from the wound margins, and spreading cells are considered to exhibit mitosis only after they have become firmly fixed to the underlying tissues.
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McMINN, R., JOHNSON, F. Mitosis in Migrating Epithelial Cells. Nature 178, 212 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178212a0
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