Wound dressings play a crucial role in promoting efficient wound closure and healing by providing an environment conducive to tissue repair. Traditional wound dressings, such as cellulose-based gauze, often exhibit challenges in adhesion and exudate absorption, necessitating frequent replacements that may cause additional trauma. Biocellulose (BC), derived from bacteria, presents a natural c…
Curcumin (CUR) has been traditionally used as a wound healing agent, thus, is a good wound dressing agent. To further enhance anti-bacterial prevention, levofloxacin (LEVO) is considered as it has high effectiveness towards both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. CUR and LEVO are added to ethyl cellulose (ethocel) due to its high stability towards heat, light, and chemicals. Zein is …
Mucosal wound is a wound that appears in the mucosal ssue that can be caused by a variety of factors, such as medicaon, environmental factors, microbiota and genec factors. Incorporang resveratrol and levofloxacin in ethyl cellulose can create a wound dressing that has good thermostability and durability. Resveratrol was found to have an-i…
Skin wound healing is a biological course of events where a series of molecular and cellular events works together to restore the damaged tissue in four phases. Several factors could interfere with the completion of those phases, causing delayed and abnormal wounds which may lead to ulcers. Commonly, the formation of ulcers is associated with type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) disorder which …