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Title

Multifunctional and Smart Wound Dressings—A Review on Recent Research Advancements in Skin Regenerative Medicine.

Authors

Rani Raju, Nithya; Silina, Ekaterina; Stupin, Victor; Manturova, Natalia; Chidambaram, Saravana Babu; Achar, Raghu Ram

Abstract

The healing of wounds is a dynamic function that necessitates coordination among multiple cell types and an optimal extracellular milieu. Much of the research focused on finding new techniques to improve and manage dermal injuries, chronic injuries, burn injuries, and sepsis, which are frequent medical concerns. A new research strategy involves developing multifunctional dressings to aid innate healing and combat numerous issues that trouble incompletely healed injuries, such as extreme inflammation, ischemic damage, scarring, and wound infection. Natural origin-based compounds offer distinct characteristics, such as excellent biocompatibility, cost-effectiveness, and low toxicity. Researchers have developed biopolymer-based wound dressings with drugs, biomacromolecules, and cells that are cytocompatible, hemostatic, initiate skin rejuvenation and rapid healing, and possess anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity. The main goal would be to mimic characteristics of fetal tissue regeneration in the adult healing phase, including complete hair and glandular restoration without delay or scarring. Emerging treatments based on biomaterials, nanoparticles, and biomimetic proteases have the keys to improving wound care and will be a vital addition to the therapeutic toolkit for slow-healing wounds. This study focuses on recent discoveries of several dressings that have undergone extensive pre-clinical development or are now undergoing fundamental research.

Subjects

BIOLOGICAL dressings; REGENERATIVE medicine; WOUND care; FETAL tissues; WOUNDS & injuries; HEALING; WOUND healing

Publication

Pharmaceutics, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 8, p1574

ISSN

1999-4923

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.3390/pharmaceutics14081574

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