Advanced therapeutic dressings for effective wound healing—a review

J Boateng, O Catanzano - Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Advanced therapeutic dressings that take active part in wound healing to achieve rapid and
complete healing of chronic wounds is of current research interest. There is a desire for …

Nanoparticles and nanofibers for topical drug delivery

R Goyal, LK Macri, HM Kaplan, J Kohn - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
This review provides the first comprehensive overview of the use of both nanoparticles and
nanofibers for topical drug delivery. Researchers have explored the use of nanotechnology …

Biocompatibility, biodegradation and excretion of polylactic acid (PLA) in medical implants and theranostic systems

D Da Silva, M Kaduri, M Poley, O Adir, N Krinsky… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Polylactic acid (PLA) is the most commonly used biodegradable polymer in clinical
applications today. Examples range from drug delivery systems, tissue engineering …

Recent advances in electrospun nanofibers for wound healing

S Chen, B Liu, MA Carlson, AF Gombart, DA Reilly… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Electrospun nanofibers represent a novel class of materials that show great potential in
many biomedical applications including biosensing, regenerative medicine, tissue …

A review of key challenges of electrospun scaffolds for tissue‐engineering applications

S Khorshidi, A Solouk, H Mirzadeh… - Journal of tissue …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering holds great promise to develop functional constructs resembling the
structural organization of native tissues to improve or replace biological functions, with the …

Functionalized silk fibroin nanofibers as drug carriers: Advantages and challenges

M Farokhi, F Mottaghitalab, RL Reis… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is well thought of as the most potent nanofiber producing technique, which
is applicable in biomedical fields. The generation of electrospun nanofibers as drug carriers …

Electrospun medical sutures for wound healing: A review

L Xu, Y Liu, W Zhou, D Yu - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the increasing demand for wound healing around the world, the level of medical
equipment is also increasing, but sutures are still the preferred medical equipment for …

Biodegradable polymers for electrospinning: Towards biomedical applications

D Kai, SS Liow, XJ Loh - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2014 - Elsevier
Electrospinning has received much attention recently due to the growing interest in nano-
technologies and the unique material properties. This review focuses on recent progress in …

Optimal delivery of poorly soluble drugs using electrospun nanofiber technology: Challenges, state of the art, and future directions

S Pattnaik, K Swain… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Poor aqueous solubility of both, existing drug molecules and those which are currently in the
developmental stage, have posed a great challenge to pharmaceutical scientists because …

Long-term implant fibrosis prevention in rodents and non-human primates using crystallized drug formulations

S Farah, JC Doloff, P Müller, A Sadraei, HJ Han… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Implantable medical devices have revolutionized modern medicine. However, immune-
mediated foreign body response (FBR) to the materials of these devices can limit their …