Transdermal Nano-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Wound Healing

A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 3275

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Dear Colleagues,

Despite the significant progress that has been made in clinical medicine, non-healing wounds such as diabetic foot, venous leg ulcers, pressure ulcers, and other types of injuries propose a serious world health problem. The current limitation for therapies involving proteins, genes, and small molecule drugs has been a delivery system that can effectively enable their full therapeutic benefits. Therefore, innovative drug-delivery systems that are based on nanotechnology for wound treatment have been developed. They can maintain high drug bioactivity bioavailability and can facilitate its release or presentation within the wound at a physiologically relevant rate and duration. In this Special Issue of Pharmaceutics, we aim to highlight recent advances in nanotechnolodgy-based delivery systems for wound healing applications. In particular, we will focus on those systems using hydrogels, scaffolds, biologics, complexes, and coacervates to discuss their advantages and potential drawbacks.

Dr. Agnes Klar
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Keywords

  • biomateriasl
  • coacervate
  • controlled release
  • biologics
  • drug delivery
  • hydrogel
  • microparticles
  • scaffold
  • wound healing

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RETRACTED: Amitriptyline-Based Biodegradable PEG-PLGA Self-Assembled Nanoparticles Accelerate Cutaneous Wound Healing in Diabetic Rats
by Hani Z. Asfour, Nabil A. Alhakamy, Osama A. A. Ahmed, Usama A. Fahmy, Mohamed A. El-moselhy, Waleed Y. Rizg, Adel F. Alghaith, Basma G. Eid and Ashraf B. Abdel-Naim
Pharmaceutics 2022, 14(9), 1792; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14091792 - 26 Aug 2022
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Abstract
The aim of this work was to study the healing activity of amitriptyline (Amitrip) in rat diabetic wounds. A nanoformula of the drug was prepared as Amitrip-based biodegradable PEG-PLGA self-assembled nanoparticles (Amitrip-NPs) with a mean particle size of 67.4 nm. An in vivo [...] Read more.
The aim of this work was to study the healing activity of amitriptyline (Amitrip) in rat diabetic wounds. A nanoformula of the drug was prepared as Amitrip-based biodegradable PEG-PLGA self-assembled nanoparticles (Amitrip-NPs) with a mean particle size of 67.4 nm. An in vivo investigation was conducted to evaluate the wound-healing process of Amitrip-NPs in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Wound contraction was accelerated in rats treated with Amitrip-NPs. Histological examinations confirmed these findings, with expedited remodeling and collagen deposition in the NPs-treated animals. The formula showed anti-inflammatory activities as demonstrated by inhibition of interleukin-6 (IL-6) expression and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) expression, as well as enhanced expression of interleukin-10 (IL-10). In addition, Amitrip-NPs protected against malondialdehyde (MDA) buildup and superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) enzymatic exhaustion. The pro-collagen activity of Amitrip-NPs was confirmed by the observed enhancement of hydroxyproline wounded skin content, upregulation of Col 1A1 mRNA expression and immune expression of collagen type IV expression. Further, Amitrip-NPs significantly increased expression transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A), platelet-derived growth factor-B (PDGF-B) and cluster of differentiation 31 (CD31). In conclusion, the developed Amitrip-NPs expedited wound healing in diabetic rats. This involves anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, pro-collagen and angiogenic activities of the prepared NPs. This opens the gate for evaluating the usefulness of other structurally related tricyclic antidepressants in diabetic wounds. Full article
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