Self-Associating Polymers Chitosan and Hyaluronan for Constructing Composite Membranes as Skin-Wound Dressings Carrying Therapeutics
Katarína Valachová, Ladislav Šoltés
Abstract
-acetyl-glucosamine polymers. Another β-polymer is hyaluronan. Chitosan, a biodegradable, non-toxic, bacteriostatic, and fungistatic biopolymer, has numerous applications in medicine. Hyaluronan, one of the major structural components of the extracellular matrix in vertebrate tissues, is broadly exploited in medicine as well. This review summarizes that these two biopolymers have a mutual impact on skin wound healing as skin wound dressings and carriers of remedies.
Topics & Concepts
ChitosanChitinBiopolymerWound healingWound dressingExtracellular matrixChemistryPolymerGlucosamineMembraneHyaluronic acidPolymer scienceMaterials scienceBiochemistryMedicineOrganic chemistrySurgeryComposite materialAnatomyWound Healing and TreatmentsSilk-based biomaterials and applicationsHydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications