Impaired wound healing: CD47’s latest safety hurdle?

Just as anti-CD47 antibodies are getting past their first safety hurdle of hematological toxicities, a new study has cautioned that the antibodies could have a dangerous effect on wound healing.

In a paper published in Nature Communications on Nov. 1, a team led by University of Michigan professor Charles Parkos showed that anti-CD47 antibodies disrupt intestinal mucosal wound healing...