Journal
ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue 8, Pages 4779-4788Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00301
Keywords
hydrogel; wound healing; chronic wound; ICAM-1; cargo retention; oxanorbornadienes; cleavable linkers
Funding
- NIH [AI119971, AI064811]
- NIH BioMat T32 program [EB006343]
- TL1 training award [TR001113-05]
- ARCS foundation
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Chronic wounds represent a growing clinical problem for which limited treatment strategies exist. Defects in immune cell-mediated healing play an important role in chronic wound development, presenting an attractive clinical target in the treatment of chronic wounds. However, efforts to improve healing through the application of growth factors and cytokines have been limited by the rapid degradation and diffusion of these molecules in the wound environment. In this study, we sought to overcome the challenge of rapid diffusion through the development of a hydrogel delivery system in which protein cargo can be released into the wound environment at a constant and tunable rate. This system was used to deliver the intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) to target endogenous cells upstream of growth factor and cytokine production and circumvent the issue of their rapid degradation. We demonstrated that our delivery system was able to release cargo at different and highly controllable rates and thereby improved cargo retention in the wound environment. Additionally, treatment with ICAM-1 in the delivery system improved healing in both ICAM-1-deficient mice and an aged mouse model of delayed healing, highlighting a potential clinical benefit for this protein in the treatment of chronic wounds.
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