Biodegradable piezoelectric skin-wound scaffold

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Electrical stimulation (ES) induces wound healing and skin regeneration. Combining ES with the tissue-engineering approach, which relies on biomaterials to construct a replacement tissue graft, could offer a self-stimulated scaffold to heal skin-wounds without using potentially toxic growth factors and exogenous cells. Unfortunately, current ES technologies are either ineffective (external stimulations) or unsafe (implanted electrical devices using toxic batteries). Hence, we propose a novel wound-healing strategy that integrates ES with tissue engineering techniques by utilizing a biodegradable self-charged piezoelectric PLLA (Poly (l-lactic acid)) nanofiber matrix. This unique, safe, and stable piezoelectric scaffold can be activated by an external ultrasound (US) to produce well-controlled surface-charges with different polarities, thus serving multiple functions to suppress bacterial growth (negative surface charge) and promote skin regeneration (positive surface charge) at the same time. We demonstrate that the scaffold activated by low intensity/low frequency US can facilitate the proliferation of fibroblast/epithelial cells, enhance expression of genes (collagen I, III, and fibronectin) typical for the wound healing process, and suppress the growth of S. aureus and P. aeruginosa bacteria in vitro simultaneously. This approach induces rapid skin regeneration in a critical-sized skin wound mouse model in vivo. The piezoelectric PLLA skin scaffold thus assumes the role of a multi-tasking, biodegradable, battery-free electrical stimulator which is important for skin-wound healing and bacterial infection prevention simultaneuosly.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:301

Enthalten in:

Biomaterials - 301(2023) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 122270

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Das, Ritopa [VerfasserIn]
Le, Thinh T [VerfasserIn]
Schiff, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Chorsi, Meysam T [VerfasserIn]
Park, Jinyoung [VerfasserIn]
Lam, Priscilla [VerfasserIn]
Kemerley, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Supran, Ajayan Mannoor [VerfasserIn]
Eshed, Amit [VerfasserIn]
Luu, Ngoc [VerfasserIn]
Menon, Nikhil G [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Tannin A [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hanzhang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Thirunavukkarasu, Mahesh [VerfasserIn]
Maulik, Nilanjana [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Thanh D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biocompatible Materials
Biodegradable piezoelectric nanofibers
Collagen Type I
Electrical stimulation
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Skin regeneration
Ultrasound
Wound healing

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Date Completed 06.09.2023

Date Revised 03.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.biomaterials.2023.122270

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360900755