In this report, Witold Kilarski et al. show that the rapid formation of new vessels in healing wound tissue does not depend on endothelial cell proliferation and sprouting, which typically have been presumed to be needed for the growth of new blood vessels. Instead, preexisting vessels enlarge and translocate, a process driven by the tension generated by contracting fibroblasts and/or myofibroblasts (pages 608–610).
- Witold W Kilarski
- Branka Samolov
- Pär Gerwins
