Breakthrough treatments for accelerated wound healing

BR Freedman, C Hwang, S Talbot, B Hibler… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Skin injuries across the body continue to disrupt everyday life for millions of patients and
result in prolonged hospital stays, infection, and death. Advances in wound healing devices …

Recent advances in responsive hydrogels for diabetic wound healing

S Zhang, G Ge, Y Qin, W Li, J Dong, J Mei, R Ma… - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Poor wound healing after diabetes mellitus remains a challenging problem, and its
pathophysiological mechanisms have not yet been fully elucidated. Persistent bleeding …

A strain-programmed patch for the healing of diabetic wounds

G Theocharidis, H Yuk, H Roh, L Wang… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Diabetic foot ulcers and other chronic wounds with impaired healing can be treated with
bioengineered skin or with growth factors. However, most patients do not benefit from these …

Advanced bandages for diabetic wound healing

S Matoori, A Veves, DJ Mooney - Science translational medicine, 2021 - science.org
Current treatment options for foot ulcers, a serious and prevalent complication of diabetes,
remain nonspecific. In this Perspective, we present recent advances in understanding the …

Single cell transcriptomic landscape of diabetic foot ulcers

G Theocharidis, BE Thomas, D Sarkar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) is a devastating complication of diabetes whose pathogenesis
remains incompletely understood. Here, we profile 174,962 single cells from the foot …

Myofibroblasts: function, formation, and scope of molecular therapies for skin fibrosis

Y Tai, EL Woods, J Dally, D Kong, R Steadman… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Myofibroblasts are contractile, α-smooth muscle actin-positive cells with multiple roles in
pathophysiological processes. Myofibroblasts mediate wound contractions, but their …

Inflammatory microenvironment of skin wounds

Z Wang, F Qi, H Luo, G Xu, D Wang - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Wound healing is a dynamic and highly regulated process that can be separated into three
overlapping and interdependent phases: inflammation, proliferation, and remodelling. This …

Multistage ROS-responsive and natural polyphenol-driven prodrug hydrogels for diabetic wound healing

Z Ni, H Yu, L Wang, Y Huang, H Lu… - ACS applied materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The high level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and bacterial infection impede wound
healing of the diabetic wound. Here, benefiting from the antioxidation effects of tannic acid …

Murine macrophages or their secretome delivered in alginate dressings enhance impaired wound healing in diabetic mice

G Theocharidis, S Rahmani, S Lee, Z Li, A Lobao… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Diabetic foot ulceration is a devastating diabetic complication with unmet needs. We
explored the efficacy of calcium-crosslinked alginate dressings in topically delivering …

Integrated skin transcriptomics and serum multiplex assays reveal novel mechanisms of wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers

G Theocharidis, D Baltzis, M Roustit, A Tellechea… - Diabetes, 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Nonhealing diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are characterized by low-grade chronic
inflammation, both locally and systemically. We prospectively followed a group of patients …