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WHILE engaged in experiments on the development of feathers in chick embryos, Saunders and Weiss1 noted that skin wounds failed to heal when the embryos were less than 3 days old. On further investigation Weiss and Matoltsy2,3 found, for unknown reasons, that this inability to initiate wound healing persisted until the chick embryos were at least 10 days old.
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Saunders, jun., J. W., and Weiss, P., Anat. Rec., 108, 93 (1950).
Weiss, P., and Matoltsy, A. G., Nature, 180, 854 (1957).
Weiss, P., and Matoltsy, A. G., Developmental Biol., 1, 302 (1959).
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BLOCK, M. Wound Healing in the New-Born Opossum (Didelphis virginianam). Nature 187, 340–341 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187340a0
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