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Temporary skin grafts based on hybrid graphene oxide-natural biopolymer nanofibers as effective wound healing substitutes: pre-clinical and pathological studies in animal models

Mahmoudi, N ; Sharif University of Technology | 2017

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/s10856-017-5874-y
  3. Publisher: Springer New York LLC , 2017
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  5. Abstract: In recent years, temporary skin grafts (TSG) based on natural biopolymers modified with carbon nanostructures have received considerable attention for wound healing. Developments are required to improve physico-mechanical properties of these materials to match to natural skins. Additionally, in-deep pre-clinical examinations are necessary to ensure biological performance and toxicity effect in vivo. In the present work, we show superior acute-wound healing effect of graphene oxide nanosheets embedded in ultrafine biopolymer fibers (60 nm) on adult male rats. Nano-fibrous chitosan-based skin grafts crosslinked by Genepin with physico-mechanical properties close to natural skins were prepared by electrospinning of highly concentrated chitosan- polyvinylpyrrolidone solutions containing graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets. No surfactants and organic solvents were utilized to ensure high biocompatibility of the fibrous structure. In vitro evaluations by human skin fibroblast cells including live and dead assay and MTT results show that GO promote cell viability of porous nanofibrous membrane while providing enhanced bactericidal capacity. In vivo studies on rat’s skin determine accelerated healing effect, i.e. a large open wound (1.5 × 1.5 cm2) is fully regenerated after 14-day of post operation while healing is observed for sterile gauze sponge (as the control). Pathological studies support thick dermis formation and complete epithelialization in the presence of 1.5 wt% GO nanosheets. Over 99% wound healing occurs after 21 days for the injury covered with TSG containing 1.5 wt% GO while this would takes weeks for the control. Therefore, the developed materials have a high potential to be used as TSG as pre-clinical testing has shown. Graphical Abstract: [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York
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  7. Biocompatibility ; Biomechanics ; Biomolecules ; Biopolymers ; Carbon ; Cell culture ; Chitin ; Chitosan ; Materials testing ; Mechanical properties ; Nanofibers ; Nanosheets ; Rat control ; Biological performance ; Carbon nanostructures ; Graphene oxide nanosheet ; Graphene oxide nanosheets ; Human skin fibroblast ; Physicomechanical properties ; Poly vinyl pyrrolidone ; Wound healing effects ; Graphene ; Biopolymer ; Chitosan nanoparticle ; Graphene oxide ; Molecular scaffold ; Nanosheet ; Biopolymer ; Chitosan ; Graphite ; Nanofiber ; Adult ; Animal experiment ; Animal model ; Article ; Biocompatibility ; Cell viability ; Collagen synthesis ; Controlled study ; Electrospinning ; Epithelization ; Human ; Human cell ; In vitro study ; Male ; MTT assay ; Nanofabrication ; Nonhuman ; Preclinical study ; Priority journal ; Rat ; Skin fibroblast ; Skin graft ; Surface area ; Temporary skin graft ; Tissue scaffold ; Wound healing ; Animal ; Artificial skin ; Cell culture ; Cell survival ; Chemistry ; Cytology ; Fibroblast ; Procedures ; Scanning electron microscopy ; Skin ; Skin transplantation ; Sprague dawley rat ; Tissue scaffold ; Ultrastructure ; Wound healing ; Animals ; Biopolymers ; Cell survival ; Cells, cultured ; Chitosan ; Fibroblasts ; Graphite ; Humans ; Male ; Microscopy, electron, scanning ; Models, animal ; Nanofibers ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Skin ; Skin transplantation ; Skin, artificial ; Tissue scaffolds ; Wound healing
  8. Source: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine ; Volume 28, Issue 5 , 2017 , 73 ; 09574530 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10856-017-5874-y