Amoxicillin-laded sodium alginate/cellulose nanocrystals/polyvinyl alcohol composite nanonetwork sponges with enhanced wound healing and antibacterial performance

Houjuan Qi, Lifei Yang, Rongxiu Ma, Yushuang Xiang, Yuxin Dai, Juanna Ren, Ben Bin Xu, Zeinhom M. El-Bahy, Hamdy Khamees Thabet, Zhanhua Huang, Wei Ben, Huimin Yu, Zhanhu Guo*

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Abstract

Wound healing is a complex process and reuires a long repair process. Poor healing effect is normally a challenge for wound healing. Designing sponge dressings with drug-assisted therapy, good breathability, and multiple functional structures effectively promotes wound healing. In this work, a flexible amoxicillin-laded (AMX) sodium alginate (SA)/cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs)/ polyvinyl alcoho (PVA) (SA/CNCs/PVA-AMX, SCP-AMX) wound dressing was designed and built with an excellent porous structure, suitable porosity, and anti-bacterial properties for promoting wound tissue reparation. The porous structure of the wound dressing was fabricated by freeze-thawing cyclic and freeze-dried molding process. This wound dressing exhibited a 3D porous structure for soft-tissue-engineering application, including high porosity (84.2%), swelling ratio (1513%), tensile strength (1.79 MPA), and flexibility. With the inhibition zones of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) being 1.96 and4.58 cm, respectively, this wound dressing demonstrated good antibacterial activity against E. coli and S. aureus. More importantly, wound healing assay in vivo indicates that SCP-AMX could inhibit wound infection, promote collagen deposition, reduce inflammation, and accelerate granulation tissue and wound healing. Thus, the reported wounding dressings present excellent biocompatibility, high antibacterial activities, and excellent biosafety with great potential in wound healing applications.
Original languageEnglish
Article number135701
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalInternational Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume280
Issue numberPt 1
Early online date15 Sept 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 15 Sept 2024

Keywords

  • Composite sponge
  • Antibacterial activity
  • Wound healing

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