Hydrogels for Wound Dressings: Applications in Burn Treatment and Chronic Wound Care DOI Open Access

A. S. Alberts,

Elena-Theodora Moldoveanu,

Adelina-Gabriela Niculescu

et al.

Journal of Composites Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9(3), P. 133 - 133

Published: March 13, 2025

Severe skin injuries such as burns and chronic wounds are a subject of interest in the medical field, they require much attention. These types susceptible to serious complications, which can worsen health patients reduce their quality life. Hydrogels have emerged innovative wound dressings for treating acute wounds, including burns, diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg pressure ulcers. polymeric networks provide moist environment, promote cellular migration, offer antimicrobial properties, being recognized superior conventional dressings. This review aims explore recent advancements hydrogel-based dressings, emphasizing state-of-the-art technologies used this purpose trend achieving personalized therapeutic approaches. Despite promising vitro vivo findings described review, further clinical validation large-scale manufacturing optimizations required widespread adoption.

Language: Английский

Anti‐inflammatory hydrogel dressings and skin wound healing DOI Creative Commons
Can Huang, Lanlan Dong,

Baohua Zhao

et al.

Clinical and Translational Medicine, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(11)

Published: Nov. 1, 2022

Abstract Hydrogels are promising and widely utilized in the biomedical field. In recent years, anti‐inflammatory function of hydrogel dressings has been significantly improved, addressing many clinical challenges presented ongoing endeavours to promote wound healing. Wound healing is a cascaded highly complex process, especially chronic wounds, such as diabetic severe burn which adverse endogenous or exogenous factors can interfere with inflammatory regulation, leading disruption process. Although insufficient inflammation uncommon, excessive infiltration an almost universal feature impedes histological repair predictable biological step chronological order. Therefore, resolving essential. past 5 extensive research conducted on address healing, specifically by efficiently scavenging free radicals, sequestering chemokines promoting M 1 ‐to‐M 2 polarization macrophages, thereby regulating this study, we introduced novel demonstrated innovative methods for their preparation application achieve enhanced addition, summarize most important properties required discuss our analysis potential yet be addressed.

Language: Английский

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Antioxidant Biomaterials in Cutaneous Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration: A Critical Review DOI Creative Commons
Nur Izzah Md Fadilah, Shou Jin Phang, Nurkhuzaiah Kamaruzaman

et al.

Antioxidants, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(4), P. 787 - 787

Published: March 23, 2023

Natural-based biomaterials play an important role in developing new products for medical applications, primarily cutaneous injuries. A large panel of with antioxidant properties has revealed advancement supporting and expediting tissue regeneration. However, their low bioavailability preventing cellular oxidative stress through the delivery system limits therapeutic activity at injury site. The integration compounds implanted biomaterial should be able to maintain while facilitating skin recovery. This review summarises recent literature that reported natural antioxidant-incorporated promoting wound healing regeneration, which is supported by evidence from vitro, vivo, clinical studies. Antioxidant-based therapies have shown promising numerous animal studies, even though studies remain very limited. We also described underlying mechanism reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation provided a comprehensive ROS-scavenging found last six years.

Language: Английский

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Recent Advances in Biodegradable and Biocompatible Synthetic Polymers Used in Skin Wound Healing DOI Open Access
Ruojiao Xu, Y.Z. Fang, Zhao Zhang

et al.

Materials, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 16(15), P. 5459 - 5459

Published: Aug. 3, 2023

The treatment of skin wounds caused by trauma and pathophysiological disorders has been a growing healthcare challenge, posing great economic burden worldwide. use appropriate wound dressings can help to facilitate the repair healing rate defective skin. Natural polymer biomaterials such as collagen hyaluronic acid with excellent biocompatibility have shown promote restoration However, low mechanical properties fast degradation limited their applications. Skin based on biodegradable biocompatible synthetic polymers not only overcome shortcomings natural but also possess favorable for applications in wounds. Herein, we listed several used dressing materials, PVA, PCL, PLA, PLGA, PU, PEO/PEG, focusing composition, fabrication techniques, functions promoting healing. Additionally, future development prospects polymer-based are put forward. Our review aims provide new insights further using polymers.

Language: Английский

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Environmentally Adaptive Polymer Hydrogels: Maintaining Wet‐Soft Features in Extreme Conditions DOI
Kun Lei, Meijun Chen,

Pengshan Guo

et al.

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 33(41)

Published: June 13, 2023

Abstract Hydrogels have been widely explored to adapt different application circumstances. As typical wet‐soft materials, the high‐water content of hydrogels is beneficial their wide biomedical applications. Moreover, displaying considerable potential in some high‐tech areas, like brain‐computer interface, intelligent actuator, flexible sensor, etc. However, traditional hydrogel susceptive freezing below zero, dehydration, performance swelling‐induced deformation, and suffers from mechanical damage extremely environments, which result loss peculiarities (e.g., flexibility, structure integrity, transparency), greatly limiting Therefore, reducing point, improving dehydration/solution resistance, designing adaptability are effective strategies endow with extreme environmental adaptability, thus broadening fields. This review systematically summarizes research advances environmentally adaptive (EAHs), comprising anti‐freezing, dehydration‐resistant, acid/base/swelling deformation‐resistant, environment (MEAHs). Firstly, fabrication methods presented, including deep eutectic solvent/ionic liquid substituent, addition salts, organogel, polymer network modification, double (DN) complex/nanocomposite strategy, Meanwhile, features approaches overviewed. The mechanisms, properties, applications wound dressing, sensor) EAHs demonstrated. Finally, issues future perspectives for EAHs’ researches

Language: Английский

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Janus Nanofiber Membranes with Photothermal‐Enhanced Biofluid Drainage and Sterilization for Diabetic Wounds DOI
Xiaojing Zhang, Nuo Yu, Qian Ren

et al.

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(24)

Published: Feb. 16, 2024

Abstract Diabetic wounds are difficult to heal, and the key wound healing is exudate management effective disinfection. Inspired by asymmetric wettability of Janus‐structured lotus leaves, herein study has presented design a biomimetic Janus membrane that integrates unidirectional biofluid drainage photothermal‐enhanced evaporation/sterilization capabilities for accelerating diabetic healing. This prepared electrospinning polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofiber containing polydopamine (PDA) on surface polypropylene (PP) nonwoven membrane. Such PP/PAN x%PDA enables antigravity “pumping” water from hydrophobic PP layer hydrophilic PAN within 22 s through contact points interface. The incorporation 30 wt% PDA in imparts high photoabsorption photothermal responsiveness, facilitating continuous volatilization exudate, achieving twice displacement water, causing irreversible damage bacteria. As result, it effectively alleviates inflammation cellular fibrosis while promoting collagen deposition due its structure antibacterial properties. Impressively, such achieves an impressive closure rate 96.7% wounds, better than (59.8%) conventional bandages. Therefore, this offers promising alternative chronic wounds.

Language: Английский

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Aloe vera-Based Hydrogels for Wound Healing: Properties and Therapeutic Effects DOI Creative Commons
Mariana Chelu, Adina Magdalena Musuc, Mónica Popa

et al.

Gels, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(7), P. 539 - 539

Published: July 3, 2023

Aloe vera-based hydrogels have emerged as promising platforms for the delivery of therapeutic agents in wound dressings due to their biocompatibility and unique wound-healing properties. The present study provides a comprehensive overview recent advances application healing. synthesis methods, structural characteristics, properties are discussed. Mechanisms released from hydrogels, including diffusion, swelling, degradation, also analyzed. In addition, effects on healing, well reduction inflammation, antimicrobial activity, tissue regeneration, highlighted. incorporation various agents, such anti-inflammatory ones, into is reviewed detail. Furthermore, challenges future prospects dressing applications considered. This review valuable information current status highlights potential improve healing outcomes.

Language: Английский

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Supramolecular hydrogels for wound repair and hemostasis DOI

Shaowen Zhuo,

Yongping Liang,

Zhengying Wu

et al.

Materials Horizons, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11(1), P. 37 - 101

Published: Oct. 27, 2023

The unique network characteristics and stimuli responsiveness of supramolecular hydrogels have rendered them highly advantageous in the field wound dressings, showcasing unprecedented potential. However, there are few reports on a comprehensive review hydrogel dressings for repair hemostasis. This first introduces major cross-linking methods hydrogels, which includes hydrogen bonding, electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic host-guest metal ligand coordination some other interactions. Then, we advanced materials reported recent years then summarize basic principles each method. Next, classify structures before outlining their forming process propose potential future directions. Furthermore, also discuss raw materials, structural design principles, material used to achieve functions such as antibacterial function, tissue adhesion, substance delivery, anti-inflammatory antioxidant functions, cell behavior regulation, angiogenesis promotion, hemostasis innovative years. Finally, existing problems well development directions strategy, design, discussed. is proposed stimulate further exploration by researchers future.

Language: Английский

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Designing biomimetic scaffolds for skin tissue engineering DOI

Jiatian Chen,

Yingwei Fan,

Guozhao Dong

et al.

Biomaterials Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11(9), P. 3051 - 3076

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

This review offers systematic considerations of material design principles and fabrication techniques for biomimetic skin tissue engineering scaffolds.

Language: Английский

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Chitosan and chito-oligosaccharide: a versatile biopolymer with endless grafting possibilities for multifarious applications DOI Creative Commons
Popat Mohite, Sunny Shah, Sudarshan Singh

et al.

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: May 19, 2023

Chito-oligosaccharides (COS), derived from chitosan (CH), are attracting increasing attention as drug delivery carriers due to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and mucoadhesive properties. Grafting, the process of chemically modifying CH/COS by adding side chains, has been used improve performance enhancing stability, targeted delivery, controlled release. In this review, we aim provide an in-depth study on recent advances in grafting for multifarious applications. Moreover, various strategies techniques grafting, including chemical modification, enzymatic physical elaborated. The properties grafted CH/COS, such solubility, were reported. Additionally, review detailed applications small molecule, proteins, RNA interference therapeutics. Furthermore, effectiveness improving pharmacokinetics pharmacodynamics drugs was included. Finally, challenges limitations associated with use outline directions future research addressed. insights provided will be valuable researchers development professionals interested application

Language: Английский

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Hydrogel-based dressings designed to facilitate wound healing DOI Creative Commons
Wei Zhang, Lulu Liu, Hui Cheng

et al.

Materials Advances, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 5(4), P. 1364 - 1394

Published: Dec. 20, 2023

This review provides an overview of the functionalities hydrogel-based dressings and their role in promoting wound healing.

Language: Английский

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