Compounds whose principal reported action is on the repair of damaged tissue: recruiting fibroblasts, forming new blood vessels, laying down and remodelling the surrounding matrix, and resolving local inflammation. It spans skin, gut lining, tendon, ligament and muscle. Compounds acting on the same processes for appearance rather than injury are filed under Cosmetic.

Why it matters here

This category holds the widest gap on the site between mechanism evidence and outcome evidence, since the cell-culture and rodent work is often solid while the human data is thin, so the rung on each individual claim is worth reading rather than the compound's overall impression.

Also called

• healing
• tissue repair
• repair
• regenerative
• recovery

Regenerative is borrowed from regenerative medicine, where it usually means a cell or tissue therapy rather than a signalling molecule.

Compounds carrying this term

None on file yet. This term is in the controlled vocabulary but no compound record currently uses it — which is a statement about our coverage, not about the term.

See also

• Wound Healing Cascade — Biological Pathway
• Tissue Repair — Reported Outcome
• Cosmetic — Functional Category