Figure 1.

The time course of the different cells appearing in the wound during the healing process. Macrophages and neutrophils are predominant during inflammation, whereas lymphocytes peak somewhat later and fibroblasts are predominant during the proliferative phase. Adapted with permission from Witte and Barbul.¹ To see this illustration in color, the reader is referred to the web version of this article at www.liebertpub.com/wound