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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 189, Issue -, Pages 379-398Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.02.003
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Homopolysaccharide; Naturally-occurring polymer; Polysaccharide; Wound dressing; Wound healing
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Wound dressings are designed to support the wound bed and protect it from the factors that may delay or impede its healing such as contaminations and moisture-loss, thereby facilitating and accelerating the healing process. The materials used to prepare wound dressings include natural and synthetic polymers, as well as their combinations, in the forms of films, sponges and hydrogels. Polysaccharides are naturally-occurring polymers that have been extensively used as wound dressing materials. Homopolysaccharides are a class of polysaccharides consist of only one type of monosaccharide. The current review intends to overview the studies in which wound dressings from naturally-occurring polymers, based on homopolysaccharides, were prepared and evaluated. Homopolysaccharides such as cellulose, chitosan, chitin, pullulan, starch and ss-glucan were considered.
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