Oxygen therapy has shown promising results for treating diabetic wounds. However, clinically used oxygen therapies are cumbersome and expensive. Thus, there is a need to develop a localized oxygenating treatment that is easy to use and inexpensive.
Approach:
In this study, we tested a previously developed hydrogel sheet wound dressing based on fluorinated methacrylamide chitosan (MACF) for enhanced oxygenation and compared it with a commercial sheet hydrogel dressing, AquaDerm™, and no treatment controls in a splinted transgenic diabetic mouse wound model.
Results:
AquaDerm exhibited poor wound closure response compared with the MACF oxygenating hydrogel sheet dressing (MACF+O2) and no treatment. Histological analysis revealed enhanced collagen synthesis and neovascularization upon MACF+O2 treatment as indicated by higher collagen content and number of blood vessels/capillaries compared with AquaDerm and no treatment. MACF+O2 also improved wound collagen fiber alignment, thus demonstrating improved skin tissue maturation. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based biodistribution analysis revealed that the degradation products of the MACF-based dressing did not accumulate in lung, liver, and kidney tissues of the treated animals after 14 days of treatment.
Innovation:
This study presents the first application of a unique oxygenating biomaterial (MACF) made into a moist hydrogel wound dressing for treating diabetic wounds.
Conclusion:
The results of this study confirm the benefits of this novel biomaterial approach for improving regenerated tissue structure in diabetic wound healing.
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