Can children grow their fingertips again?

Let's be clear about something: the regeneration of the lost fingers sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but it may be a perfectly real possibility, especially since it was recently discovered that maybe the children can regenerate the tissue of the fingertips.How? We'll tell you!

Regenerate the fingertips: is it possible for children?

Commonly, there are severe enough fingertip injuries to cause it to completely detach itself from the other fingers.That usually means that it has been lost forever. But a new finding seems to indicate the opposite: in children, the fingertip can grow back.Not always, but it happens, or so Dr.Christopher Allan tells us.

The doctor says that a 7-year-old girl lost the tip of her finger playing with his brother's bike and arrived at the emergency room, where Dr.Christopher Allan and his fellow surgeons at UW Medicine had to make a decision: Should they try microsurgical reintegration? Suture the wound to minimize tissue damage? Or should they replace the fingertip as a "biological bandage" to protect the wound and wait for it to graft on the finger?

After an hour under the microscope, where they tried to find an artery big enough to repair it, they decided to replace the fingertip and told the parents that this newly added part would probably die, and that was, in fact, eight weeks later, the girl brought Allan the yolk of the missing finger in a plastic bag, and a perfectly functional one in his hand.

Dr.Allan knew from previous case studies that cases had been reported in which children could return to amputated fingertips grow. But I had never witnessed that first-hand regrowth, and it was just this experience that led him to spend the next 15 years further exploring whether adults could ever do the same.

Based on this theory, the scientists They have discovered that adult humans have cells in their fingers that have the ability to regenerate tissue, only if they are activated correctly.That is why researchers work to discover what is the difference between cells in children and adults. Do children simply have more of these cells? Are they activated differently?

If any human tissue, of any size, can regenerate at any age, it opens the possibility of doing the same in other places, with larger volumes of tissue, at any age, which undoubtedly represents thousands of possibilities for future applications.

Do you think that one day we will be able to regenerate some parts of our body? It would be fascinating!

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