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These cements are the materials of choice for pulp capping (a wound dressing for covering an exposed or surgically treated pulp). They are superior to zinc oxide eugenol cements for this purpose (Mjor, 1963 Paterson, 1976). 

Patients with chronic venous insufficiency and venous leg ulcers are at risk of sensitization to topical medications. The frequency of sensitization in these patients is up to 67% (11). In a study using an expanded European standard series and 20 different wound dressings for patch-testing in 36 patients with chronic venous insufficiency, sensitization to fragrance mix was found in three cases (12). 

Chitosan derivatives have also been studied for possible utilization in wound dressings. For example, three kinds of chitosan derivative (oligochitosan, N,0-carboxymethyl-chitosan, and Al-carboxymethyl-chitosan) are used to form sheets and pastes, all of which exhibit appropriate cytocompatibility to the fibroblasts isolated from normal human dermis and hypertrophic scars [179]. 

Zhou, Y.S., et al., 2008. Electrospun water-soluble carboxyethyl chitosan/poly(vinyl alcohol) nanofibrous membrane as potential wound dressing for skin regeneration. Biomacromolecules 9 (1), 349—354. 

Eginton MT, Brown KR, Seabrook GR, Towne JB, Cambria RA. A prospective randomized evaluation of negative-pressure wound dressings for diabetic foot wounds. Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2003 17(6) 645-649. 

Alvarez, 0. M., Patel, M., Booker, J., and Markowitz, L. (2004). Effectiveness of a biocellulose wound dressing for the treatment of chronic venous leg ulcers Results of a single center randomized study involving 24 patients. Wounds, 16, 224-233. 

L.I.F. Moura, A.M.A. Dias, E. Carvalhoa, H.C. de Sousa, Recent advances on the development of wound dressings for diabetic foot ulcer treatment—a review, Biomaterialia 9 (2013) 7093-7114. 

Bacterial Cellulose has been shown to be a highly effective wound dressing material. In fact, the results of burns, diabetic ulcer, healing process can be show in Figs. 10.5 and 10.6a,b. The biomedical applications of BC include meniscus replacements (pig meniscus on the left, BC meniscus on the right), artificial blood vessels and wound dressing for skin healing [12, 20, 21] (Fig. 10.7). 

For more than 5000 years, cellulose fabrics and fibers have been used in medicine as wound dressings for treatment of wounds and burns. In the twentieth century, along with cellulose dressings, various cellulose derivatives, powdered and microcrystalline cellulose began to be used, and in the twenty-first century nanocellulose joined these products. Among various organic substances, cellulose is the most appropriate for preparation of nanoscale materials, since this most abundant natural polymer has nanostmctured organization, which promotes isolation of free nanoconstituents. 

Kirker K R, Luo Y, Morris S E, Shelhy J and Prestwich G D (2004), Glycosaminoglycan hydrogels as supplemental wound dressings for donor sites , J Bum Care Rehabil, 25, 276-86. 

In addition to the requirements for wound healing, it is important to control any infection of a wound under dressing. Infectious organisms preferentially target wounds beneath the dressing materials and elicit serious infections that frequently require removal of the wound dressing. For these reasons, the treatment of wounds requires the suppression of bacterial growth. 

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)... 

Siritientong, T., Angspatt, A., Ratanavarapom, J., Aramwit, P., 2014. Clinical potential of a silk sericin-releasing bioactive wound dressing for the treatment of split-thickness skin graft donor sites. Pharmaceutical Research 31 (1), 104—116. 

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Mary SA, Dev VRG. Electrospun herbal nanofibrous wound dressings for skin tissue engineering. J Text Inst 2015 106(8) 886—95. 

Takeoka, S., Saitoh, D., 2012. An ultrathin poly(L-lactic acid) nanosheet as a bum wound dressing for protechon against bacterial infechon. Wound Repair Regen. 20, 573—579. 

M. Cabodi, V.L. Cross, Z. Qu, K.L. Havenstrite, S. Schwartz, A.D. Stroock, An active wound dressing for controlled convective mass transfer with the wound bed, /. Biomed. Mat. Res. Part B Appl. Biomat., 82,210-222,2007. 

Adhirajan, N., Shanmugasundaram, N., Shanmuganathan, S., Babu, M. (2009) Collagen-based wound dressing for doxycycline delivery in-vivo evaluation in an infected excisional wound model in rats. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 61,1617-1623. 

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