Hybrid suture coating for dual-staged control over antibacterial actions to match well wound healing progression

YG Chen, CX Li, Y Zhang, YD Qi, XH Liu, J Feng… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Absorbable sutures have moved to the forefront in surgical fields with a huge market.
Antibacterial activity is one indispensable feature for the next generation of absorbable …

Use of affinity allows anti‐inflammatory and anti‐microbial dual release that matches suture wound resolution

RM Haley, VR Qian, GD Learn… - Journal of biomedical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surgical sutures are vulnerable to bacterial infections and biofilm formation. At the suture
site, pain and undesirable, excess inflammation are additionally detrimental to wound …

[HTML][HTML] Electroactive and antibacterial surgical sutures based on chitosan-gelatin/tannic acid/polypyrrole composite coating

Q Zhang, Y Qiao, J Zhu, Y Li, C Li, J Lin, X Li… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surgical sutures pervade almost all surgeries; however, their clinical therapy effects are
barely satisfactory due to the lack of physiological signal responsiveness and the prone …

An accelerated wound‐healing surgical suture engineered with an extracellular matrix

A Setiawati, D Jang, D Cho, S Cho… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A suture is a ubiquitous medical device to hold wounded tissues together and support the
healing process after surgery. Surgical sutures, having incomplete biocompatibility, often …

Stage-controlled antibacterial surgical sutures based on curcumin@ ZIF-8 functional coating for improved wound healing

Q Zhang, Y Zou, L Tang, X Liu, M Hu, H Han… - Progress in Organic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibacterial surgical sutures play a significant role in preventing incision infections and
promoting wound healing. However, the existing antibacterial sutures failed to match well …

Chitosan/gelatin-tannic acid decorated porous tape suture with multifunctionality for tendon healing

Q Zhang, Y Qiao, C Li, J Lin, H Han, X Li, J Mao… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
The inferior tendon healing after surgery is inextricably linked to the surgical suture. Poor
load transfer along the suture often results in a high tendon re-tear rate. Besides, the severe …

Development of an antimicrobial peptide SAAP‐148‐functionalized supramolecular coating on titanium to prevent biomaterial‐associated infections

MGJ Schmitz, M Riool, L de Boer… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Titanium implants are widely used in medicine but have a risk of biomaterial‐associated
infection (BAI), of which traditional antibiotic‐based treatment is affected by resistance …

Antimicrobial surgical sutures: Recent developments and strategies

M Tummalapalli, S Anjum, S Kumari, B Gupta - Polymer Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Surgical sutures are probably the most widely used medical devices in healthcare
applications for wound closure. During their application, sutures may be exposed to …

Dynamic surface adapts to multiple service stages by orchestrating responsive polymers and functional peptides

H Zhou, S Ye, M Xu, L Hao, J Chen, Z Fang, K Guo… - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Control over the implant surface functions is highly desirable to enhance tissue healing
outcomes but has remained unexplored to adapt to the different service stages. In the …

Advances, challenges, and prospects for surgical suture materials

Y Li, Q Meng, S Chen, P Ling, MA Kuss, B Duan, S Wu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the long-established and necessary medical devices, surgical sutures play an
essentially important role in the closing and healing of damaged tissues and organs …