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Phonrachom O, Charoensuk P, Kiti K, Saichana N, Kakumyan P, Suwantong O. Potential use of propolis-loaded quaternized chitosan/pectin hydrogel films as wound dressings: Preparation, characterization, antibacterial evaluation, and in vitro healing assay. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 241:124633. [PMID: 37119912 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
Abstract
Quaternized chitosan (QCS) was blended with pectin (Pec) to improve water solubility and antibacterial activity of the hydrogel films. Propolis was also loaded into hydrogel films to improve wound healing ability. Therefore, the aim of this study was to fabricate and characterize the propolis-loaded QCS/Pec hydrogel films for use as wound dressing materials. The morphology, mechanical properties, adhesiveness, water swelling, weight loss, release profiles, and biological activities of the hydrogel films were investigated. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) investigation indicated a homogenous smooth surface of the hydrogel films. The blending of QCS and Pec increased tensile strength and Young's modulus values of the hydrogel films. Moreover, the blending of QCS and Pec improved the stability of the hydrogel films in the medium and controlled the release characteristics of propolis from the hydrogel films. The antioxidant activity of the released propolis from the propolis-loaded hydrogel films was ~21-36 %. The propolis-loaded QCS/Pec hydrogel films showed the bacterial growth inhibition, especially against S. aureus and S. pyogenes. The propolis-loaded hydrogel films were non-toxicity to mouse fibroblast cell line (NCTC clone 929) and supported the wound closure. Therefore, the propolis-loaded QCS/Pec hydrogel films might be good candidates for use as wound dressing materials.
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- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
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- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
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- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
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- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand; Center of Chemical Innovation for Sustainability, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
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Cao Y, Cong H, Yu B, Shen Y. A review on the synthesis and development of alginate hydrogels for wound therapy. J Mater Chem B 2023; 11:2801-2829. [PMID: 36916313 DOI: 10.1039/d2tb02808e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Convenient and low-cost dressings can reduce the difficulty of wound treatment. Alginate gel dressings have the advantages of low cost and safe usage, and they have obvious potential for development in biomedical materials. Alginate gel dressings are currently a research area of great interest owing to their versatility, intelligent, and their application attempts in treating complex wounds. We present a detailed summary of the preparation of alginate hydrogels and a study of their performance improvement. Herein, we summarize the various applications of alginate hydrogels. The research focuses in this area mainly include designing multifunctional dressings for the treatment of various wounds and fabricating specialized dressings to assist physicians in the treatment of complex wounds (TOC). This review gives an outlook for future directions in the field of alginate hydrogel dressings. We hope to attract more research interest and studies in alginate hydrogel dressings, thus contributing to the creation of low-cost and highly effective wound treatment materials.
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- Yang Cao
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-Textiles, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-Textiles, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China. .,Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Center for Bionanoengineering, and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Alginate-Based Hydrogels and Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:md21030177. [PMID: 36976226 PMCID: PMC10055882 DOI: 10.3390/md21030177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Alginate is a natural polymer of marine origin and, due to its exceptional properties, has great importance as an essential component for the preparation of hydrogels and scaffolds for biomedical applications. The design of biologically interactive hydrogels and scaffolds with advanced, expected and required properties are one of the key issues for successful outcomes in the healing of injured tissues. This review paper presents the multifunctional biomedical applications of alginate-based hydrogels and scaffolds in selected areas, highlighting the key effect of alginate and its influence on the essential properties of the selected biomedical applications. The first part covers scientific achievements for alginate in dermal tissue regeneration, drug delivery systems, cancer treatment, and antimicrobials. The second part is dedicated to our scientific results obtained for the research opus of hydrogel materials for scaffolds based on alginate in synergy with different materials (polymers and bioactive agents). Alginate has proved to be an exceptional polymer for combining with other naturally occurring and synthetic polymers, as well as loading bioactive therapeutic agents to achieve dermal, controlled drug delivery, cancer treatment, and antimicrobial purposes. Our research was based on combinations of alginate with gelatin, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, apatite, graphene oxide and iron(III) oxide, as well as curcumin and resveratrol as bioactive agents. Important features of the prepared scaffolds, such as morphology, porosity, absorption capacity, hydrophilicity, mechanical properties, in vitro degradation, and in vitro and in vivo biocompatibility, have shown favorable properties for the aforementioned applications, and alginate has been an important link in achieving these properties. Alginate, as a component of these systems, proved to be an indispensable factor and played an excellent “role” in the optimal adjustment of the tested properties. This study provides valuable data and information for researchers and demonstrates the importance of the role of alginate as a biomaterial in the design of hydrogels and scaffolds that are powerful medical “tools” for biomedical applications.
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Kapusta O, Jarosz A, Stadnik K, Giannakoudakis DA, Barczyński B, Barczak M. Antimicrobial Natural Hydrogels in Biomedicine: Properties, Applications, and Challenges-A Concise Review. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:2191. [PMID: 36768513 PMCID: PMC9917233 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24032191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Natural hydrogels are widely used as biomedical materials in many areas, including drug delivery, tissue scaffolds, and particularly wound dressings, where they can act as an antimicrobial factor lowering the risk of microbial infections, which are serious health problems, especially with respect to wound healing. In this review article, a number of promising strategies in the development of hydrogels with biocidal properties, particularly those originating from natural polymers, are briefly summarized and concisely discussed. Common strategies to design and fabricate hydrogels with intrinsic or stimuli-triggered antibacterial activity are exemplified, and the mechanisms lying behind these properties are also discussed. Finally, practical antibacterial applications are also considered while discussing the current challenges and perspectives.
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- Oliwia Kapusta
- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20031 Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20031 Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20031 Lublin, Poland
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- 1st Department of Oncological Gynecology and Gynecology, Medical University in Lublin, 20-059 Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20031 Lublin, Poland
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Jabbari F, Babaeipour V. Bacterial cellulose as a potential biopolymer for wound care. A review. INT J POLYM MATER PO 2023. [DOI: 10.1080/00914037.2023.2167080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Farzaneh Jabbari
- Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Lu B, Han X, Zou D, Luo X, Liu L, Wang J, Maitz MF, Yang P, Huang N, Zhao A. Catechol-chitosan/polyacrylamide hydrogel wound dressing for regulating local inflammation. Mater Today Bio 2022; 16:100392. [PMID: 36033376 PMCID: PMC9403564 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chronic wounds and the accompanying inflammation are ongoing challenges in clinical treatment. They are usually accompanied by low pH and high oxidative stress environments, limiting cell growth and proliferation. Ordinary medical gauze has limited therapeutic effects on chronic wounds, and there is active research to develop new wound dressings. The chitosan hydrogel could be widely used in biomedical science with great biocompatibility, but the low mechanical properties limit its development. This work uses polyacrylamide to prepare double-network (DN) hydrogels based on bioadhesive catechol-chitosan hydrogels. Cystamine and N, N′-Bis(acryloyl)cystamine, which can be cross-linking agents with disulfide bonds to prepare redox-responsive DN hydrogels and pH-responsive nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by acetalized cyclodextrin (ACD) are used to intelligently release drugs against chronic inflammation microenvironments. The addition of catechol groups and ACD-NPs loaded with the Resolvin E1 (RvE1), promotes cell adhesion and regulates the inflammatory response at the wound site. The preparation of the DN hydrogel in this study can be used to treat and regulate the inflammatory microenvironment of chronic wounds accurately. It provides new ideas for using inflammation resolving factor loaded in DN hydrogel of good biocompatibility with enhanced mechanical properties to intelligent regulate the wound inflammation and promote the wound repaired. Dual-response hydrogel drug delivery system was used to intelligently release drugs at inflammation area of chronic wound. DN hydrogel was designed to enhance the properties of chitosan-based hydrogel with two cross-linking agents. Resolvin E1 loaded into wound dressing can help to regulate wound inflammation by regulating macrophage behavior.
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- Bingyang Lu
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials Dresden, Hohe Strasse 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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Novel antibacterial hydrogels based on gelatin/polyvinyl-alcohol and graphene oxide/silver nanoconjugates: formulation, characterization, and preliminary biocompatibility evaluation. Heliyon 2022; 8:e09145. [PMID: 35846480 PMCID: PMC9280498 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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3D Propolis-Sodium Alginate Scaffolds: Influence on Structural Parameters, Release Mechanisms, Cell Cytotoxicity and Antibacterial Activity. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25215082. [PMID: 33147742 PMCID: PMC7662765 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25215082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In this study, the main aim was to fabricate propolis (Ps)-containing wound dressing patches using 3D printing technology. Different combinations and structures of propolis (Ps)-incorporated sodium alginate (SA) scaffolds were developed. The morphological studies showed that the porosity of developed scaffolds was optimized when 20% (v/v) of Ps was added to the solution. The pore sizes decreased by increasing Ps concentration up to a certain level due to its adhesive properties. The mechanical, swelling-degradation (weight loss) behaviors, and Ps release kinetics were highlighted for the scaffold stability. An antimicrobial assay was employed to test and screen antimicrobial behavior of Ps against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus strains. The results show that the Ps-added scaffolds have an excellent antibacterial activity because of Ps compounds. An in vitro cytotoxicity test was also applied on the scaffold by using the extract method on the human dermal fibroblasts (HFFF2) cell line. The 3D-printed SA–Ps scaffolds are very useful structures for wound dressing applications.
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