Tao Jiang, Qianyun Li, Jinmei Qiu, Jing Chen, Shuang Du, Xiang Xu, Zihan Wu, Xiaofan Yang, Zhenbing Chen, Tongkai Chen
Wounds occur when skin integrity is broken and the skin is damaged. With progressive changes in the disease spectrum, the acute wounds caused by mechanical trauma have been become less common, while chronic wounds triggered with aging, diabetes and infection have become more frequent. Chronic wounds now affect more than 6 million people in the United States, amounting to 10 billion dollars in annual expenditure. However, the treatment of chronic wounds is associated with numerous challenges. Traditional remedies for chronic wounds include skin grafting, flap transplantation, negative-pressure wound therapy, and gauze dressing, all of which can cause tissue damage or activity limitations...
2022: International Journal of Nanomedicine