Development and use of biomaterials as wound healing therapies

There is a vast number of treatments on the market for the management of wounds and burns, representing a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. These include conventional wound dressings, dressings that incorporate growth factors to stimulate and facilitate the wound healing process, and skin sub...

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Autores principales: Murray, Rachael Zoe, West, Zoe Elizabeth, Cowin, Allison June, Farrugia, Brooke Louise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6346526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30701184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41038-018-0139-7
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Sumario:There is a vast number of treatments on the market for the management of wounds and burns, representing a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. These include conventional wound dressings, dressings that incorporate growth factors to stimulate and facilitate the wound healing process, and skin substitutes that incorporate patient-derived cells. This article will review the more established, and the recent advances in the use of biomaterials for wound healing therapies, and their future direction.

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