Highlights•Marine collagen is gaining prominence in tissue engineering as a sustainable
biomaterial and a safe alternative to mammalian collagen.•Marine collagen scaffolds can be …

Background and Objectives: Burn wound healing and management continues to be a major
challenge for patients and health care providers resulting in a considerable socio-economic …

Skin substitutes are considered a useful alternative for occlusive dressings in the treatment
of superficial burns as they reduce the frequency of dressing replacement. This phase II …

Background: In a phase II study comparing Nile tilapia fish skin to silver sulfadiazine cream
for outpatient management of superficial partial-thickness burns, the fish skin decreased …

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Wound healing poses a variety of challenges making it a vital subject in medicine. With the
advancement of science, we have seen the use of a new xenograft known as acellular fish …

Chitosan is an amino-polysaccharide, traditionally obtained by the partial deacetylation of
chitin from exoskeletons of crustaceans. Properties such as biocompatibility, hemostasis …

The epidermis consists of five distinct layers, listed deepest to most superficial: stratum
basale, stratum spinosum, stratum granulosum, stratum lucidum, and stratum corneum. 1 …

Glycerolized Nile tilapia skin (NTS) showed promising results when used for burn treatment
in phases II and III randomized controlled trials. This pilot study aims to evaluate the …

Aim: In the field of burns and soft tissue reconstruction, skin substitutes have been
successfully used for various indications. They allow for conservative treatment as well as …