by Thamarasee Jeewandara, Medical Xpress Summary of wound healing types and treatments. Following an injury stimulus, acute wounds treated either heal or persist to chronic wounds. Depending on the clinical presentation, several different treatments are provided. NPWT, negative pressure wound therapy. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade7007 Patients who undergo skin injuries endure hospital stays,...
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: MIA PHILLIPSON, PROFESSOR AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL CELL BIOLOGY AT UPPSALA UNIVERSITY. CREDIT: MIKAEL WALLERSTEDT omplicated, hard-to-heal wounds are a growing medical problem and there are currently only two drugs approved with proven efficacy. In a new study on humans, researchers at Uppsala University show that treatment with a specific type...
by Wiley Schematic illustration for fabrication of EMVEG using a EG extrusion method. Credit: Advanced Materials Interfaces (2023). DOI: 10.1002/admi.202202255 A product of a freshwater single-celled green algae called Euglena gracilis may enhance skin regeneration to speed up wound healing, according to new research published in Advanced Materials Interfaces. Investigators developed a system based on microvesicles that bud from the...
UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG Image: Anja Saalbach Credit: Photo: Leipzig University In everyday clinical practice, it has been observed that chronic inflammatory diseases like psoriasis occur earlier and more severely in overweight people. In addition, they are more difficult to treat in patients with obesity. Experts at Leipzig University Hospital therefore wanted to find out why chronic...
TERASAKI INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION IMAGE: THE TERASAKI INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION HAS DEVELOPED A FLEXIBLE, PRINTABLE EPATCH WHICH OFFERS AN UNPRECEDENTED COMBINATION OF OPTIMUM FEATURES FOR ACCELERATED WOUND HEALING. CREDIT: TERASAKI INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION (TIBI) (LOS ANGELES) – There are myriad ways in which people can experience physical wounds – from minor scrapes...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress FIG. 1. Working principle and characterization of the EMSD.(A) Schematics of the overall EMSD-L and EMSD-C (top). Exploded illustration of the device components, essential materials, and multilayer structures (bottom). (B) Working principle of wound treatment by programmable and skin temperature–activated EMSDs. (C) Optical images of the initial state (left), twisted...
RCSI Tuesday, 30 November, 2021: New research by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences suggests that effective wound healing may be aided by replicating a crucial component of our blood. The finding, published today in Advanced Functional Materials, was led by researchers at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) and SFI AMBER Centre based at RCSI’s Department of...
by University of California, Irvine PIEZO1 accumulates at the wound edge to slow wound healing. Credit: UCI School of Medicine PIEZO1, an ion channel mechanosensor found within cells, has been revealed to play a key role in regulating the speed of skin wound healing by researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Published today...
Natural killer cells do not just kill cancer cells or cells infected with viruses, they also mediate a trade-off between wound healing and bacterial defense in skin wounds. If the healing process is accelerated, the immune defense is weakened, researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown. This has relevance in treating skin injuries and in...
by Max Planck Society Human skin cells cultures (gray and cyan) are reprogrammed by the uptake of synthetic exosomes (purple). Credit: MPI for Medical Research Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and colleagues at the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen have engineered synthetic exosomes that regulate cellular signaling during wound closure....
