“…Abdominoplasty skin explants are increasingly used to make translational dermatological research discoveries in a broad range of disciplines including skin healing [ 11 ], compound testing [ 12 ], and the role of immune cells in disease [ 13 , 14 ]. However, there is growing evidence to suggest that the skin at different anatomical sites differs in multiple immunological contexts, including in immune cell prevalence, cytokine and chemokine production, and the production of anti-microbial peptides [ 15 ].…”