Algins wound healing

Doyle JW, Roth TP, Smith RM, Li YQ, Dunn RM. Effects of calcium alginate on cellular wound healing processes modeled in vitro. J Biomed Mater Res 1996 32 561-568. 

Wang, L., Khor, E., Wee, A. and Lim, L. Y, Chitosan-alginate PEC membrane as a wound dressing assessment of incisional wound healing, /. Biomed. Mater. Res., Appl. Biomater., 63, 610, 2002. 

Wound healing is a complex process that can be compromised by several factors. The wound healing efficacy of calcium alginate fibers in non-woven pads or ropes as well as in situ formed hydrogels can be further improved by incorporating dmgs or growth factors. 

Murakami, K., Aoki, H., Nakamura, S. et al. (2009) Hydrogel blends of chitin/chitosan, fucoidan and alginate as healing-impaired wound dressings. Biomaterials, 31(1), 83-90. 

Y Le, S C Anand and A R Horrocks, Using alginate fibre as a drug carrier for wound healing, fo Medical Textiles 96, S C Anand (ed.), Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, UK, 1997,21-26. 

To enhance the biomedical capabilities of chitosan, alginate, another natural polysaccharide extracted from brown sea weed, which has been used as wound dressing for a number of years, has recently been successfully combined with chitosan to generate hybrid fibres with superior properties of high liquid absorption, antimicrobial, anticoagulant and wound healing. Research at University of Bolton has developed this concept and acquired the universal patent for its imminent commercial exploitation (Miraftab et al., 2008 Miraftab et al., 2011, p345)... 

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