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which live in the dermis.
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Normally, they're just sitting there sort of in a quiescent state,
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not reproducing very rapidly, making collagen,
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providing matrix to keep up sort of the normal structure of your skin.
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When there's an injury,
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they get turned on and they migrate into the wound.
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They migrate into this provisional matrix and they start changing it.
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They start digesting the clot
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and they start making new extracellular matrix of collagen.
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They do that so that there can be a pathway
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for these blood vessels to regrow.
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The blood vessels need to regrow,