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Recent Advances in Electrospun Nanofibers for Wound Healing

2017; Future Medicine; Volume: 12; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2217/nnm-2017-0017

1748-6963

Shixuan Chen, Bing Liu, Mark A. Carlson, Adrian F. Gombart, Debra A. Reilly, Jingwei Xie,

Wound Healing and Treatments

Electrospun nanofibers represent a novel class of materials that show great potential in many biomedical applications including biosensing, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, drug delivery and wound healing. In this work, we review recent advances in electrospun nanofibers for wound healing. This article begins with a brief introduction on the wound, and then discusses the unique features of electrospun nanofibers critical for wound healing. It further highlights recent studies that have used electrospun nanofibers for wound healing applications and devices, including sutures, multifunctional dressings, dermal substitutes, engineered epidermis and full-thickness skin regeneration. Finally, we finish with conclusions and future perspective in this field.