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JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 88, Issue 2-3, Pages 145-148Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(03)00189-2
Keywords
Sphagntan mosses; wound healing; non-cytotoxic bacteriostasis; the Maillard reaction
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Sphagnum wound dressings can be 3-4 times as aborbent as cotton equivalents, but they also react chemically with proteins of all kinds. This reactivity gives them the potential of immobilizing whole bacterial cells as well as the enzymes, exotoxins, and lysins secreted by the most invasive pathogens. Once immobilized, enzymes and (by inference) exotoxins and lysins are rapidly inactivated by a Maillard reaction. The complex pectin in Sphagnum is structurally similar to known, immunostimulatory pectins from other plants, including some that are traditionally used for wound healing. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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