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Enzyme-responsive nanocomposites for wound infection prophylaxis in burn management: in vitro evaluation of their compatibility with healing processes

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Nanomedicine, June 2015
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Title
Enzyme-responsive nanocomposites for wound infection prophylaxis in burn management: in vitro evaluation of their compatibility with healing processes
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International Journal of Nanomedicine, June 2015
DOI 10.2147/ijn.s81263
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Verena Grützner, Ronald E Unger, Grit Baier, Lars Choritz, Christian Freese, Thomas Böse, Katharina Landfester, C James Kirkpatrick

Abstract

Responsive, theranostic nanosystems, capable of both signaling and treating wound infections, is a sophisticated approach to reduce the most common and potentially traumatizing side effects of burn wound treatment: slowed wound healing due to prophylactic anti-infective drug exposure as well as frequent painful dressing changes. Antimicrobials as well as dye molecules have been incorporated into biodegradable nanosystems that release their content only in the presence of pathogens. Following nanocarrier degradation by bacterial enzymes, any infection will thus emit a visible signal and be effectively treated at its source. In this study, we investigated the effect of fluorescent-labeled hyaluronan nanocapsules containing polyhexanide biguanide and poly-L-lactic acid nanoparticles loaded with octenidine on primary human dermal microvascular endothelial cells, which play a major role in cutaneous wound healing. Microscopic and flow cytometric analysis indicated a time-dependent uptake of both the nanocapsules and the nanoparticles. However, enzyme immunoassays showed no significant influence on the expression of pro-inflammatory cell adhesion molecules and cytokines by the endothelial cells. Under angiogenic-stimulating conditions, the potential to form capillary-like structures in co-culture with dermal fibroblasts was not inhibited. Furthermore, cytotoxicity studies (the MTS and crystal violet assay) after short- and long-term exposure to the materials demonstrated that both systems exhibited less toxicity than solutions of the antiseptic agents alone in comparable concentrations. The results indicate that responsive antimicrobial nanocomposites could be used as an advanced drug delivery system and a promising addition to current best practice wound infection prophylaxis with few side effects.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Russia 1 2%
Unknown 52 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 15%
Student > Master 7 13%
Researcher 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Unspecified 3 6%
Other 11 21%
Unknown 13 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 7 13%
Chemistry 7 13%
Materials Science 5 9%
Engineering 4 8%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 13 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 June 2015.
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#14,599,159
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Nanomedicine
#1,525
of 4,123 outputs
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#129,928
of 281,402 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Nanomedicine
#22
of 109 outputs
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