🩹🧬 Scar tissue forms when specialized cells called fibroblasts quickly deposit dense bundles of collagen to seal an injury.

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🩹🧬 Scar tissue forms when specialized cells called fibroblasts quickly deposit dense bundles of collagen to seal an injury.

The process prioritizes the restoration of the skin's protective barrier against #microbes over the original structure of healthy skin. Because the resulting dense tissue lacks #hair follicles and sweat glands it remains a permanent physical record of the body's rapid repair mechanism.

https://www.popsci.com/science/why-scars-never-disappear/

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