Topical vanadate improves tensile strength and alters collagen organisation of excisional wounds in a mouse model

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Wound dehiscence, oftentimes a result of the poor tensile strength of early healing wounds, is a significant threat to the post-operative patient, potentially causing life-threatening complications. Vanadate, a protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, has been shown to alter the organisation of deposited collagen in healing wounds and significantly improve the tensile strength of incisional wounds in rats. In this study, we sought to explore the effects of locally administered vanadate on tensile strength and collagen organisation in both the early and remodelling phases of excisional wound healing in a murine model. Wild-type mice underwent stented excisional wounding on their dorsal skin and were divided equally into three treatment conditions: vanadate injection, saline injection control and an untreated control. Tensile strength testing, in vivo suction Cutometer analysis, gross wound measurements and histologic analysis were performed during healing, immediately upon wound closure, and after 4 weeks of remodelling. We found that vanadate treatment significantly increased the tensile strength of wounds and their stiffness relative to control wounds, both immediately upon healing and into the remodelling phase. Histologic analysis revealed that these biomechanical changes were likely the result of increased collagen deposition and an altered collagen organisation composed of thicker and distinctly organised collagen bundles. Given the risk that dehiscence poses to all operative patients, vanadate presents an interesting therapeutic avenue to improve the strength of post-operative wounds and unstable chronic wounds to reduce the risk of dehiscence.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society - 31(2023), 1 vom: 22. Jan., Seite 77-86

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lintel, Hendrik [VerfasserIn]
Abbas, Darren B [VerfasserIn]
Mackay, Duncan J [VerfasserIn]
Griffin, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Lavin, Christopher V [VerfasserIn]
Berry, Charlotte E [VerfasserIn]
Guardino, Nicholas J [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Jason L [VerfasserIn]
Momeni, Arash [VerfasserIn]
Mackay, Donald R [VerfasserIn]
Longaker, Michael T [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Derrick C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3WHH0066W5
9007-34-5
Collagen
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Tensile strength
Vanadate
Vanadates
Wound healing

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.01.2023

Date Revised 23.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/wrr.13062

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349964300