Journal
PHARMACEUTICALS
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ph14121215
Keywords
cellulose derivatives; wound dressings; wound management; bioactive agents delivery systems
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- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest [CNFIS-FDI-2021-0300]
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Cellulose derivatives, with excellent properties such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, and antibacterial effect, have shown great potential in wound-healing applications. They can efficiently absorb and retain wound exudates, as well as incorporate various bioactive agents to promote skin tissue restoration.
Presently, notwithstanding the progress regarding wound-healing management, the treatment of the majority of skin lesions still represents a serious challenge for biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Thus, the attention of the researchers has turned to the development of novel materials based on cellulose derivatives. Cellulose derivatives are semi-synthetic biopolymers, which exhibit high solubility in water and represent an advantageous alternative to water-insoluble cellulose. These biopolymers possess excellent properties, such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, sustainability, non-toxicity, non-immunogenicity, thermo-gelling behavior, mechanical strength, abundance, low costs, antibacterial effect, and high hydrophilicity. They have an efficient ability to absorb and retain a large quantity of wound exudates in the interstitial sites of their networks and can maintain optimal local moisture. Cellulose derivatives also represent a proper scaffold to incorporate various bioactive agents with beneficial therapeutic effects on skin tissue restoration. Due to these suitable and versatile characteristics, cellulose derivatives are attractive and captivating materials for wound-healing applications. This review presents an extensive overview of recent research regarding promising cellulose derivatives-based materials for the development of multiple biomedical and pharmaceutical applications, such as wound dressings, drug delivery devices, and tissue engineering.
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