This readme file was generated on 2024-03-27 by Andrew Miller.

This document serves as the metadata for all supporting files to the manuscript "Wound Healing Splinting Devices with Improved Wound Access and Application Speed" (2024, Journal of Investigative Dermatology).

Resources (protocols, data sets, figures) beyond those in the main article and supplemental information are available here in accordance with the published NIH guidelines (https://sharing.nih.gov/) for the dissemination of all research resources related to projects under NIH funding. All data will be stored and accessible through Duke University’s public repository (https://research.repository.duke.edu/). Physical materials may be made available to the non-commercial research community upon request and acceptance of terms under Duke’s Material Transfer Agreements.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Title of Dataset: Data from: Wound healing splinting devices with improved wound access and application speed

Author Information
Name: Andrew Miller,
ORCID: 0000-0002-7444-8524
Institution: Duke University (Biomedical Engineering)
Address: 534 Research Drive, Wilkinson Bldg, Rm 330, Durham, NC 27708
Email: andrew.w.miller@duke.edu

Principal Investigator
Name: Tatiana Segura, Ph.D.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1569-8686
Institution: Duke University (Biomedical Engineering)
Address: 534 Research Drive, Wilkinson Bldg, Rm 330, Durham, NC 27708
Email: tatiana.segura@duke.edu

Date of data collection: 2020-2024

Geographic location of data collection: Durham, NC, USA

Funding sources: 
This work was made possible with government support under Federal Grant No. R01NS094599 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. 

Acknowledgements: 
Special thanks to thanks to Madeline Sitton (Gersbach lab, Duke University) for support on CRISPR/dCas9, gRNA design, and generous donation of the dual CRISPRa plasmid system. Also, thanks to Chi Chang (Yuan lab, Duke University) for support on qPCR analysis and to Xingrui Mou (Musah lab, Duke University) for support on cell culture chip design and fabrication.

Disclosures:
The technology described in the corresponding manuscript has been filed by the authors through Duke's Office for Translation and Commercialization as a U.S. patent provisional with the goal of being patented and licensed commercially. Data here is provided for non-commercial purposes to help further academic research.
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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC BY-NC
Links to publications that cite or use the data: 
Recommended citation for this dataset: 
Segura, T., Miller, A. W., & Anderson, A. (2024). Data from: Wound healing splinting devices with improved wound access and application speed. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4s75kg76
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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
The folder structure is grouped by each Figure with the data corresponding to each plot in the respective folder.

Data gleaned from photos or stained histological sections is provided in Excel (.XLSX) format.
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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Refer to manuscript for the methods and analysis.