Patarroyo Jorge Luis, Cifuentes Javier, Muñoz Laura N, Cruz Juan C, Reyes Luis H
Grupo de Diseño de Productos y Procesos (GDPP), Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, 111711, Colombia.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, 111711, Colombia.
Heliyon. 2022 Mar 21;8(3):e09145. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09145. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Antibiotic resistance has become a major public health problem generated by their excessive and inappropriate use. This is worrisome because multiple microbial infections that could traditionally be treated without major complications are now considerably challenging to treat. In this regard, research in this field has been focused on searching for new molecules capable of arresting these microbial infections with high effectiveness, including antimicrobial peptides (AMP) and various nanomaterials. Here, we proposed a novel topical hydrogel treatment based on a polymeric network of gelatin-polyvinyl alcohol-hyaluronic acid encapsulating a graphene oxide (GO) nanoconjugate on which silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have been grown. This treatment is intended to be stable, biocompatible, non-toxic, pleasant to skin contact, provide bioavailability of the active agent for a prolonged period in the affected skin area where its application is required and inhibit microbial growth effectively. The nanocomposite hydrogels were characterized in terms of microstructure, thermal resistance, rheological behavior, particle size distribution, texture profile and physical stability, as well as a one-month accelerated stability study. The satisfactory results in terms of physical chemistry, stability on storage modulus (G'), TSI values, and microstructure allowed choosing some points of the experimental design to encapsulate the GO-Ag NPs nanoconjugates. The biological evaluation of these nanocomposites showed that the treatments are biocompatible as they have a very low hemolytic effect (less than 5%) and a moderate platelet aggregating capacity (35%-45%). Finally, 100% of bacterial growth was inhibited by the action of the topical nanocomposite hydrogel treatments. These results led to affirm that these treatments can have an excellent performance in this application as well as in wound healing and dressing, bioadhesives, tissue engineering, and other biomedical applications.
抗生素耐药性已成为因抗生素过度和不当使用而产生的一个主要公共卫生问题。这令人担忧,因为传统上可无重大并发症治疗的多种微生物感染现在治疗起来相当具有挑战性。在这方面,该领域的研究一直集中在寻找能够高效阻止这些微生物感染的新分子,包括抗菌肽(AMP)和各种纳米材料。在此,我们提出了一种新型局部水凝胶疗法,它基于明胶 - 聚乙烯醇 - 透明质酸的聚合物网络,包裹着已生长有银纳米颗粒(Ag NPs)的氧化石墨烯(GO)纳米共轭物。这种疗法旨在稳定、生物相容、无毒、与皮肤接触舒适,在需要应用的受影响皮肤区域长时间提供活性剂的生物利用度,并有效抑制微生物生长。对纳米复合水凝胶进行了微观结构、耐热性、流变行为、粒度分布、质地剖面和物理稳定性等方面的表征,以及为期一个月的加速稳定性研究。在物理化学、储能模量(G')稳定性、TSI 值和微观结构方面的满意结果使得能够从实验设计中选择一些点来包裹 GO - Ag NPs 纳米共轭物。这些纳米复合材料的生物学评估表明,这些疗法具有生物相容性,因为它们具有非常低的溶血作用(小于 5%)和适度的血小板聚集能力(35% - 45%)。最后,局部纳米复合水凝胶疗法的作用抑制了 100%的细菌生长。这些结果表明,这些疗法在该应用以及伤口愈合与敷料、生物粘合剂、组织工程和其他生物医学应用中都能有出色表现。
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