Antibacterial and antiviral functional materials: chemistry and biological activity toward tackling COVID-19-like pandemics

B Balasubramaniam, Prateek, S Ranjan… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ongoing worldwide pandemic due to COVID-19 has created awareness toward
ensuring best practices to avoid the spread of microorganisms. In this regard, the research …

Recent advances on antimicrobial wound dressing: A review

D Simões, SP Miguel, MP Ribeiro, P Coutinho… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) have high rates of morbidity and mortality associated.
Despite the successful treatment of some SSTIs, those affecting the subcutaneous tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Wound healing properties of selected natural products

NI Ibrahim, SK Wong, IN Mohamed… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wound healing is a complex process of recovering the forms and functions of injured
tissues. The process is tightly regulated by multiple growth factors and cytokines released at …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer-based materials loaded with curcumin for wound healing applications

S Alven, X Nqoro, BA Aderibigbe - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Some of the currently used wound dressings have interesting features such as excellent
porosity, good water-absorbing capacity, moderate water vapor transmission rate, high drug …

Curcumin loaded polycaprolactone-/polyvinyl alcohol-silk fibroin based electrospun nanofibrous mat for rapid healing of diabetic wound: An in-vitro and in-vivo studies

Y Agarwal, PS Rajinikanth, S Ranjan, U Tiwari… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is emerging as a versatile technique nanofibers fabrication because due to
their unique properties such as large surface area to volume ratio, porosity and maintaining …

Anti-inflammation biomaterial platforms for chronic wound healing

Z Xu, B Liang, J Tian, J Wu - Biomaterials science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, there has been an increase in the number of people with chronic wounds, which
has resulted in serious health problems worldwide. The rate-limiting stage of chronic wound …

[HTML][HTML] Electrospun nanofibers/nanofibrous scaffolds loaded with silver nanoparticles as effective antibacterial wound dressing materials

S Alven, B Buyana, Z Feketshane, BA Aderibigbe - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The treatment of wounds is expensive and challenging. Most of the available wound
dressings are not effective and suffer from limitations such as poor antimicrobial activity …

Anti‐microbial activity of curcumin nanoformulations: New trends and future perspectives

S Sharifi, N Fathi, MY Memar… - Phytotherapy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Curcumin has been used in numerous anti‐microbial research because of its low side
effects and extensive traditional applications. Despite having a wide range of effects, the …

Fabrication of Chitosan/PVA/GO/CuO patch for potential wound healing application

KS Venkataprasanna, J Prakash, S Vignesh… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wound healing is a common issue in our day to day life. Our immune system repairs the
damaged tissue by itself and its a time-consuming process. The GO/CuO nanocomposite …

Curcumin-loaded naturally-based nanofibers as active wound dressing mats: Morphology, drug release, cell proliferation, and cell adhesion studies

M Akrami-Hasan-Kohal, L Tayebi… - New Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A perfect wound dressing should be able to maintain a high moisture content, manage
exudates effectively, provide thermal insulation, and provide reliable mechanical strength. In …