Development for wound dressing based on blended chitosan and gelatin hydrogels

I. Hao Chen, Ching Ming Chien, Chun Ting Wang, Chih Ling Huang*, Chih Kuang Wang, Yur Ren Kuo

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Abstract

Chitosan and gelatin are potential wound dressing materials. However, chitosan takes too much time to degrade and gelatin degrades too fast. As a result, chitosan and gelatin are blended to adjust their degradation rate. The degree of degradation test by means of weight loss and thermogravimetric analyzer after being incubated with lysozyme, which is a common enzyme in body fluid. Optical microscopy was used to observe the materials morphology after immersed in water. Finally, fibroblast cells were cultured with various material extracts to examine cell adhesion in vitro. Cell adhesion tests showed there are no negative effect on cells. Therefore, there is no cell toxicity of chitosan on cells. Chitosan and gelatin can be promising wound dressing raw materials in future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Materials Research VII
EditorsSerge Zhuiykov
PublisherTrans Tech Publications Ltd
Pages119-123
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783035712308
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Advanced Materials Research, ICAMR 2018 - Fukuoka, Japan
Duration: 20 01 201822 01 2018

Publication series

NameKey Engineering Materials
Volume765 KEM
ISSN (Print)1013-9826
ISSN (Electronic)1662-9795

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Advanced Materials Research, ICAMR 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityFukuoka
Period20/01/1822/01/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.

Keywords

  • Chitosan
  • Gelatin
  • Wound dressing

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