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Evaluation of chitosan nano dressing for wound healing: characterization, in vitro and in vivo studies.

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The synergistic effects of nano dressing such as good antibacterial ability, high swelling properties, high water vapour transmission rate (WVTR), excellent hydrophilic nature, biocompatibility, wound appearance, wound closure rate and histological study through in vivo test makes it a suitable candidate for wound healing applications.
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This article is published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 378 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Haemolysis & Biocompatibility.

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A Novel Wound Dressing Based on Ag/Graphene Polymer Hydrogel: Effectively Kill Bacteria and Accelerate Wound Healing

TL;DR: In this article, a series of hydrogels are prepared by crosslinking of Ag/graphene composites with acrylic acid and N,N'-methylene bisacrylamide at different mass ratios.
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Hydrogel wound dressings for bioactive treatment of acute and chronic wounds

TL;DR: A variety of approaches to bioactive wound healing, such as bioactive dressing materials, use of antimicrobial agents, inclusion of biological signaling molecules like growth factors, and incorporation of seeded stem cells, are considered and critically evaluated.
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Wound dressings: Current advances and future directions

TL;DR: Wound healing is a complicated and continuous process affected by several factors, which needs an appropriate surrounding to achieve accelerated healing as mentioned in this paper, and wound healing process recruits three differencing factors.
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Nanotechnology-Driven Therapeutic Interventions in Wound Healing: Potential Uses and Applications

TL;DR: The most recently developed nanotechnology-based therapeutic agents are highlighted and the viability and efficacy of each treatment are assessed, with emphasis on chronic cutaneous wounds.
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Chitosan-PVP-nano silver oxide wound dressing: In vitro and in vivo evaluation

TL;DR: The prepared chitosan-PVP-nano silver oxide (CPS) films were characterized for their thermal behaviour, morphological properties, mechanical properties, antibacterial properties and wound healing properties and found higher antibacterial activity.
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Biomaterials based on chitin and chitosan in wound dressing applications

TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to take a closer look on the wound dressing applications of biomaterials based on chitin, chitosan and their derivatives in various forms in detail.
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Chitin and chitosan: Chemistry, properties and applications

TL;DR: This study looks at the contemporary research in chitin and chitosan towards applications in various industrial and biomedical fields.
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Biomedical applications of chitin and chitosan based nanomaterials—A short review

TL;DR: This review emphasizes recent research on different aspects of chitin and chitosan based nanomaterials, including the preparation and applications of chitized materials, nanofibers, nanoparticles and nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering, wound dressing, drug delivery and cancer diagnosis.
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Acute toxicity and biodistribution of different sized titanium dioxide particles in mice after oral administration.

TL;DR: Biodistribution experiment showed that TiO(2) mainly retained in the liver, spleen, kidneys, and lung tissues, which indicated thatTiO( 2) particles could be transported to other tissues and organs after uptake by gastrointestinal tract.
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Titanium Dioxide (P25) Produces Reactive Oxygen Species in Immortalized Brain Microglia (BV2): Implications for Nanoparticle Neurotoxicity†

TL;DR: Data indicate that mouse microglia respond to Degussa P25 with cellular and morphological expressions of free radical formation, indicating that nanosize TiO2 could pose a risk to biological targets that are sensitive to oxidative stress damage.
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