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Moustafa MH, Turkey MS, Mohamedin NS, Darwish AA, Elshal AAM, Yehia MAH, El Safwany MM, Mohamed EI. Eggshell membrane and green seaweed (Ulva lactuca) micronized powders for in vivo diabetic wound healing in albino rats: a comparative study. J Pharm Health Care Sci 2024; 10:43. [PMID: 39044300 PMCID: PMC11265442 DOI: 10.1186/s40780-024-00345-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Nonhealing diabetic wounds are a serious complication associated with extremely lethargic wound closure and a high risk of infection, leading to amputation or limb loss, as well as substantial health care costs and a poor quality of life for the patient. The effects of either eggshell membrane (ESM) and green seaweed (Ulva lactuca) extracts alone or in combination were evaluated for in vivo skin wound healing in a rat model of induced diabetes. METHODS Micronized powders of waste hen ESM, Ulva lactuca, and their 1:1 mixture were prepared using regular procedures. The mechanical, electrical, and surface morphology characteristics of powders were examined using direct compression, LCR-impedancemetry, and scanning electron microscopy. The effect of ESM, Ulva lactuca, and their mixture as compared to standard Dermazin treatments were evaluated on wounds inflicted on male Wistar Albino rats with induced diabetes. Quantitative wound healing rates at baseline and at 3, 7, 14, and 21 days of treatments among all rat groups were conducted using ANOVA. Qualitative histological analysis of epidermal re-epithelization, keratinocytes, basement membrane, infiltrating lymphocytes, collagen fibrines, and blood vessels at day 21 were performed using Image J processing program. RESULTS Compressive strength measurements of tablets showed a Young's modulus of 44.14 and 27.17 MPa for the ESM and ESM + Ulva lactuca mixture, respectively. Moreover, both samples exhibited relatively low relative permittivity values of 6.62 and 6.95 at 1 MHz, respectively, due to the porous surface morphology of ESM shown by scanning electron microscopy. On day 21, rats treated with ESM had a complete diabetic wound closure, hair regrowth, and a healing rate of 99.49%, compared to 96.79% for Dermazin, 87.05% for Ulva lactuca, 90.23% for the mixture, and only 36.44% for the negative controls. A well-formed basement membrane, well-differentiated epithelial cells, and regular thick keratinocytes lining the surface of the epidermal cells accompanied wound healing in rats treated with ESM, which was significantly better than in control rats. CONCLUSION Ground hen ESM powder, a low-cost effective biomaterial, is better than Ulva lactuca or their mixture for preventing tissue damage and promoting diabetic wound healing, in addition to various biomedical applications.
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- Moustafa H Moustafa
- Medical Biophysics Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, 165 El-Horreya Avenue, Alexandria, 21561, Egypt
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- Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, October 6 University, Sixth of October City, Giza, Egypt
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- Medical Biophysics Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, 165 El-Horreya Avenue, Alexandria, 21561, Egypt
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- Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Technology, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Medical Biophysics Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, 165 El-Horreya Avenue, Alexandria, 21561, Egypt
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- Histochemistry and Cell Biology Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Radiological Sciences and Medical Imaging Department, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Technology, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Medical Biophysics Department, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, 165 El-Horreya Avenue, Alexandria, 21561, Egypt.
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Li R, Su Z, Li Z, Li D, Luo R, Qiu J, Lan H. Experimental investigation of brain contusion characteristics and dynamic response in low-age children using an animal model. Injury 2024; 55:111589. [PMID: 38704918 DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2024.111589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Brain contusion is a prevalent traumatic brain injury (TBI) in low-age children, bearing the potential for coma and fatality. Hence, it is imperative to undertake comprehensive research in this field. METHODS This study employed 4-week-old piglets as surrogates for children and introduced self-designed devices for both free-fall drop impact tests and drop-hammer impact tests. The study explored the characteristics of brain contusion and dynamic responses of brain under these distinct testing conditions. RESULTS Brain contusions induced by free-fall and drop-hammer conditions both were categorized as the coup injury, except that slight difference in the contusion location was observed, with contusion occurring mainly in the surrounding regions beneath the impact location under free-fall condition and the region just right beneath the impact location under drop-hammer condition. Analysis of impact force and intracranial pressure (ICP) curves indicated similar trends in impact forces under both conditions, yet different trends in ICPs. Further examination of the peak impact forces and ICPs elucidated that, with increasing impact energy, the former followed a combined power and first-order polynomial function, while the latter adhered to a power function. The brain contusion was induced at the height (energy) of 2 m (17.2 J), but not at the heights of 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.35 and 1.7 m, when the vertex of the piglet head collided with a rigid plate. In the case of a cylindrical rigid hammer (cross-sectional area constituting 40 % of the parietal bone) striking the head, the brain contusion was observed under the energy of 21.9 J, but not under energies of 8.1 J, 12.7 J and 20.3 J. Notably, the incidence of brain contusion was more pronounced under the free-fall condition. CONCLUSIONS These findings not only facilitate a comprehensive understanding of brain contusion dynamics in pediatric TBIs, but also contribute to the validation of theories and finite element models for piglet heads, which are commonly employed as surrogates for children.
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- Rui Li
- School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, PR China
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- School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, PR China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, PR China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, 100045, PR China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, 100045, PR China
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- Daping Hospital of Army Medical University, PLA, 400042, PR China
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- School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, PR China
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Urasaki MBM, Lima MOP, Gonçalves R, Araújo NM, Pereira CGS. Measurement of perineal tears as an additional tool for laceration assessment during vaginal birth. Eur J Midwifery 2023; 7:43. [PMID: 38125555 PMCID: PMC10731751 DOI: 10.18332/ejm/174310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Spontaneous lacerations at vaginal birth are everyday events, but their classification and management still challenge midwifery care. This study aims to measure and describe first-degree and second-degree perineal lacerations resulting from vaginal birth, describe their repair, and the education provided for care. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted in a public maternity hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, with 87 parturients. Data were collected between October 2017 and June 2018 using a structured instrument containing obstetric variables and a description of lacerations. The obstetricians and nurse midwives assisted with births, determining the degree of laceration and intervention, and the researchers measured and reported them. RESULTS The majority of parturients (82.7%) had lacerations only in the anterior region, 8% had them in the posterior region, and 9.2% in both regions. The lacerations were classified as first-degree (78.1%) or second-degree (21.8%). Among the 32 nulliparous parturients, 27.6% had first-degree lacerations, and 9.2% had second-degree. Of the 55 multiparous parturients, 50.6% had first-degree, and 12.6% had second-degree. Among the lacerations assessed as first-degree, 25% had deeper tissue layers compromised in addition to the skin and mucosa. There were 180 lacerations, with an average length of 33.1 mm, depth of 19.8 mm, and width of 23.8 mm. Half of the parturients did not receive guidance on laceration care. There was no association between parity and size, number, location, or degree classification of lacerations. CONCLUSIONS This study provides a broad description of the characteristics of perineal lacerations and presents measurement techniques as a complementary resource for evaluating lacerations.
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- Maristela B. M. Urasaki
- Midwifery Program, School of Arts, Science and Humanities, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Midwifery Program, School of Arts, Science and Humanities, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Midwifery Program, School of Arts, Science and Humanities, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Midwifery Program, School of Arts, Science and Humanities, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Swerdlow M, Guler O, Yaakov R, Armstrong DG. Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of Pressure Injury Image Data Using Mask-R-CNN. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2023; 2023:3858997. [PMID: 36778787 PMCID: PMC9911250 DOI: 10.1155/2023/3858997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Background Pressure injuries (PIs) impose a substantial burden on patients, caregivers, and healthcare systems, affecting an estimated 3 million Americans and costing nearly $18 billion annually. Accurate pressure injury staging remains clinically challenging. Over the last decade, object detection and semantic segmentation have evolved quickly with new methods invented and new application areas emerging. Simultaneous object detection and segmentation paved the way to segment and classify anatomical structures. In this study, we utilize the Mask-R-CNN algorithm for segmentation and classification of stage 1-4 pressure injuries. Methods Images from the eKare Inc. pressure injury wound data repository were segmented and classified manually by two study authors with medical training. The Mask-R-CNN model was implemented using the Keras deep learning and TensorFlow libraries with Python. We split 969 pressure injury images into training (87.5%) and validation (12.5%) subsets for Mask-R-CNN training. Results We included 121 random pressure injury images in our test set. The Mask-R-CNN model showed overall classification accuracy of 92.6%, and the segmentation demonstrated 93.0% accuracy. Our F1 scores for stages 1-4 were 0.842, 0.947, 0.907, and 0.944, respectively. Our Dice coefficients for stages 1-4 were 0.92, 0.85, 0.93, and 0.91, respectively. Conclusions Our Mask-R-CNN model provides levels of accuracy considerably greater than the average healthcare professional who works with pressure injury patients. This tool can be easily incorporated into the clinician's workflow to aid in the hospital setting.
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- Mark Swerdlow
- Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Nazarnezhad S, Salehi M, Samadian H, Ehtermi A, Kasaiyan N, Khastar H, Abbaszadeh-Goudarzi G, Kolarijani NR, Yeganehfard H, Ziaei H. In vitro and in vivo evaluation of porous alginate hydrogel containing retinoic acid for skin wound healing applications. J BIOACT COMPAT POL 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/08839115221104071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The current study’s main aim was to fabricate and evaluate alginate (Alg) hydrogel containing retinoic acid (RA) as wound healing materials. Different RA concentrations (2, 10, and 50% w/w) were incorporated into the hydrogel. The results showed that the prepared hydrogels had a porous structure with a pore size of 69.69 ± 22.1 µm for pure Alg hydrogel and 78.44 ± 27.8 µm for Alg/RA hydrogel. The swelling measurement showed that the hydrogels swelled up to 65% and the incorporation of RA reduced the degree of swelling . The in vitro studies confirmed the hemo- and biocompatibility of the Alg/RA 2% and increasing the RA concentration induced hemolysis and toxic effects. The animal studies showed that the lowest RA concentration resulted in the best treatment outcome while increasing the RA concentration suppressed the healing process. In conclusion, these results showed that RA induced wound healing process at low concentration, and the prepared hydrogel could be used as the wound healing materials.
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- Simin Nazarnezhad
- Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Tissue Engineering, School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
- Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
- Sexual Health and Fertility Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
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- Dental Implants Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Sexual Health and Fertility Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
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- Dentistry Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Automated Structural Analysis and Quantitative Characterization of Scar Tissue Using Machine Learning. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:diagnostics12020534. [PMID: 35204623 PMCID: PMC8871086 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12020534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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An analysis of scar tissue is necessary to understand the pathological tissue conditions during or after the wound healing process. Hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining has conventionally been applied to understand the morphology of scar tissue. However, the scar lesions cannot be analyzed from a whole slide image. The current study aimed to develop a method for the rapid and automatic characterization of scar lesions in HE-stained scar tissues using a supervised and unsupervised learning algorithm. The supervised learning used a Mask region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to train a pattern from a data representation using MMDetection tools. The K-means algorithm characterized the HE-stained tissue and extracted the main features, such as the collagen density and directional variance of the collagen. The Mask RCNN model effectively predicted scar images using various backbone networks (e.g., ResNet50, ResNet101, ResNeSt50, and ResNeSt101) with high accuracy. The K-means clustering method successfully characterized the HE-stained tissue by separating the main features in terms of the collagen fiber and dermal mature components, namely, the glands, hair follicles, and nuclei. A quantitative analysis of the scar tissue in terms of the collagen density and directional variance of the collagen confirmed 50% differences between the normal and scar tissues. The proposed methods were utilized to characterize the pathological features of scar tissue for an objective histological analysis. The trained model is time-efficient when used for detection in place of a manual analysis. Machine learning-assisted analysis is expected to aid in understanding scar conditions, and to help establish an optimal treatment plan.
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Mehl AA, Damião AO, Viana SD, Andretta CP. Hard-to-heal wounds: a randomised trial of an oral proline-containing supplement to aid repair. J Wound Care 2021; 30:26-31. [PMID: 33439085 DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2021.30.1.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We evaluated the effects of a specialised oral nutritional supplement (ONS) containing arginine and proline, with high vitamin A, C and E, zinc and selenium content, on the repair of hard-to-heal wounds. METHOD Patients with hard-to-heal wounds were evaluated at five timepoints (S0-S4) over four consecutive weeks. At S0 patients were randomised to the specialised ONS (n=15; 25 wounds) or control (n=15; 25 wounds) groups. Posology was 200ml twice daily over the research period. Wound surface area and perimeter were monitored. In addition to the metric data, it was also possible to calculate the rate of wound contraction and the linear growth of the wound edges, looking for wound-healing predictive factors. RESULTS A total of 30 patients took part in the study. Mean age was 65 years and 50% of patients had diabetes. Of the total evaluated wounds, 78% were <50cm2, 14% were 50-150cm2 and 8% were >250cm2. In 96% of cases, the wounds were in the lower limbs. A statistically significant reduction (p=0.004) in surface area of the wounds due to the specialised ONS, with a performance peak between S1 and S2, was observed. This specialised ONS did not induce changes in blood pressure, blood glucose level or renal function. A mean weekly wound edge growth of 1.85mm in patients with diabetes and 3.0mm in those without diabetes was observed. These results were 2.9 and 4.6 times, respectively, higher than expected, according to the literature. CONCLUSION Specialised ONS can be a therapeutic option for hard-to-heal wounds.
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- Nutritionist Specialising in Clinical and Hospital Nutrition; Grupo de Apoio de Nutrição Enteral e Parenteral, Brazil
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- Nutritionist Specialising in Clinical Nutrition; Faculdade Evangélica do Paraná, Brazil
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