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MATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma12040559
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PVA blends; manuka honey; natural polymers; burn care
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil (CNPq) [405922/2016-2017]
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Manuka honey is a well-known natural material from New Zealand, considered to have properties beneficial for burn treatment. Gels created from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) blended with natural polymers are potential burn-care dressings, combining biocompatibility with high fluid uptake. Controlled release of manuka honey from such materials is a possible strategy for improving burn healing. This work aimed to produce polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), PVA-sodium carboxymethylcellulose (PVA-CMC), PVA-gelatin (PVA-G), and PVA-starch (PVA-S) cryogels infused with honey and to characterize these materials physicochemically, morphologically, and thermally, followed by in vitro analysis of swelling capacity, degradation/weight loss, honey delivery kinetics, and possible activity against Staphylococcus aureus. The addition of honey to PVA led to many PVA crystals with defects, while PVA-starch-honey and PVA-sodium carboxymethylcellulose-honey (PVA-CMC-H) formed amorphous gels. PVA-CMC presented the highest swelling degree of all. PVA-CMC-H and PVA-gelatin-honey presented the highest swelling capacities of the honey-laden samples. Weight loss/degradation was significantly higher for samples containing honey. Layers submitted to more freeze-thawing cycles were less porous in SEM images. With the honey concentration used, samples did not inhibit S. aureus, but pure manuka honey was bactericidal and dilutions superior to 25% honey were bacteriostatic, indicating the need for higher concentrations to be more effective.
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