Recent Advances in Biomaterials for Wound Healing
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 96
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterials; surface treatments; biopolymers; polymers; bioactivation of materials; physicochemical characterizations; dressings; advanced therapy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biomaterials; polymers; biopolymers; dressings; drug release; polymer modification; biomaterials interface; bioactivation of materials; cell culture; advanced therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dressings serve as therapeutic aids in wound repair and constitute a crucial segment of the medical and pharmaceutical markets. Physiologically, wound repair is a natural and intricate biological progression, encompassing four distinct and consecutive phases: hemostasis, inflammation, cell proliferation, and tissue remodeling. The initiation of tissue regeneration and/or healing hinges upon various factors, primarily the magnitude and depth of the wound, alongside patient-specific factors such as age, diabetes, and obesity.
The efficient management of wound healing is imperative to prevent complications and deter the progression of wounds into chronic states. Therefore, the prudent application of dressings assumes a pivotal role, dynamically adjusting to the injury's intrinsic and extrinsic factors. An array of materials can be strategically engineered to serve as passive dressings, shielding the wound while modulating the physiological conditions conducive to tissue repair. Moreover, these materials can act as therapeutic agents via the incorporation of bioactive substances, including antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and debridement agents, or other functional compounds released locally to facilitate healing.
In this vein, the quest for biomaterials that are capable of expediting the healing process, particularly in chronic wounds, as well as aiding in the diagnosis and treatment of infected lesions, presents a formidable challenge that has spurred extensive research. The profound psychological, physical, and financial toll such wounds have on patients underscores the urgency of addressing these challenges.
This Special Issue aims to spotlight recent advancements in biomaterials that hold innovative promise in wound treatment and tissue repair.
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Silveira Vieira
Dr. Niédja Fittipaldi Vasconcelos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dressings
- biomaterials
- therapeutic agents
- antimicrobial
- anti-inflammatory
- debridement
- infected lesion
- drug delivery
- tissue regeneration
- wound healing
