Nutrients, promoting wound healing

Active agents are substances that promote wound healing. Cell nutrients and cytokines are attractive candidates as active agents because much is known about their roles in tissue function and their incorporation into dressing materials is technically feasible. 

As with iron, zinc is an essential nutrient for normal growth and reproduction, and promotes wound healing and tissue repair. Zinc is a key component of many vital enzymes involved in most metabolic pathways. It is part of the enzyme retinene-reductase required for the proper functioning of vitamin A, and therefore indirectly affects vision. Zinc is also part of carbonic anhydrase, which is responsible for the transfer of carbon dioxide, especially in hanoglobin and renal tubules, and of car-boxypeptidase, key in protein metabolism. It also forms a complex with insulin, increasing the activity of this hormone, and helps to increase the activity of thymidine... 

DERMAFILL of AMD Ritmed (Canada) is a semiopaque membrane of BNC covering the whole of the wound and providing a high vapor transfer rate. This dressing protects the wound from environmental contamination and promotes distribution of growth factors and nutrients needed for healing. 

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