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Split skin grafting is currently the method of choice for most physicians, and a 1990 study by Gallico, O'Connor and John P. Remensnyder Jr., associate professor of surgery at the Medical School and director of the MGH operating rooms, found that the method produced an 84 percent success rate among severe burn victims, while autografting produced a 68 percent success rate...
...Gallico said that the next step in researching cultured skin cells is the possibility of using cells from one person to treat another, a process known as allografting. Allografts would make it possible to use cultured skin cells at all times, since a bank of cultures could be kept at any surgical center for immediate...
...Allografts would make things much easier," says Gallico. "Right now, there's a three-week span in which we can't do anything...
...Gallico says that the autografts can be used as a "living laboratory" while they are being grown. Previously, researchers had used cultures to study cell physiology, and this research is continuing...
...cells are evidently getting messages from the areas on which they are placed," says Gallico...