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Fabrication of Self-Healing Hydrogels with On-Demand Antimicrobial Activity and Sustained Biomolecule Release for Infected Skin Regeneration

Journal

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 20, Pages 17018-17027

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b01740

Keywords

self-healing hydrogel; bacteria responsiveness; on-demand antimicrobial property; sustained growth factor release; infected tissue regeneration

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81601606]
  2. Young Talent Support Plan of Xi'an Jiaotong University
  3. Technology Foundation for Selected Overseas Chinese Scholar of Shaanxi Province
  4. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2016qngz02]
  5. One Hundred Talents Program of Shaanxi Province
  6. National Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province [2017JM5023]
  7. open fund of the State Key Laboratory of Military Stomatology [2017KA02]

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Microbial infection has been considered as one of the most critical challenges in bioengineering applications especially in tissue regeneration, which engenders severe threat to public health. Herein, a hydrogel performing properties of rapid self-healing, on-demand antibiosis and controlled cargo release was fabricated by a simple assembly of Fe complex as the cross-linker and hyaluronic acid as the gel network. This hydrogel is able to locally degrade and release Fe3+ to kill bacteria as needed because of hyaluronidase excreted by surrounding bacteria, resulting in efficient antibacterial activity against different types of bacteria. The sustained release property of certain types of growth factors was also observed from this hydrogel owing to its dense network. Moreover, this hydrogel could repeatedly heal itself in minutes because of the coordination interaction between Fe3+ and COOH, exhibiting good potential in bioengineering applications on the exposed tissue, where the materials are easily damaged during daily life. When topically applied onto damaged mouse skin with infection of Staphylococcus aureus, the hydrogel is able to inhibit microbial infections, meanwhile promoting cutaneous regeneration, which formed new skin with no inflammation within a 10 day treatment. These results demonstrate the potential application of this self-healing hydrogel for the integrated therapy of antibiosis and tissue regeneration.

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