Bioinspired injectable self-healing hydrogel sealant with fault-tolerant and repeated thermo-responsive adhesion for sutureless post-wound-closure and wound healing
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Hydrogels with multifunctionalities, including sufficient bonding strength, injectability and self-healing capacity, responsive-adhesive ability, fault-tolerant and repeated tissue adhesion, are urgently demanded for invasive wound closure and wound healing. Motivated by the adhesive mechanism of mussel and brown algae, bioinspired dynamic bonds cross-linked multifunctional hydrogel adhesive is designed based on sodium alginate (SA), gelatin (GT) and protocatechualdehyde, with ferric ions added, for sutureless post-wound-closure. The dynamic hydrogel cross-linked through Schiff base bond, catechol-Fe coordinate bond and the strong interaction between GT with temperature-dependent phase transition and SA, endows the resulting hydrogel with sufficient mechanical and adhesive strength for efficient wound closure, injectability and self-healing capacity, and repeated closure of reopened wounds. Moreover, the temperature-dependent adhesive properties endowed mispositioning hydrogel to be removed/repositioned, which is conducive for the fault-tolerant adhesion of the hydrogel adhesives during surgery. Besides, the hydrogels present good biocompatibility, near-infrared-assisted photothermal antibacterial activity, antioxidation and repeated thermo-responsive reversible adhesion and good hemostatic effect. The in vivo incision closure evaluation demonstrated their capability to promote the post-wound-closure and wound healing of the incisions, indicating that the developed reversible adhesive hydrogel dressing could serve as versatile tissue sealant.
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The fascinating properties of mussel-inspired injectable hydrogels benefit their application in numerous biomedical fields, such as wound closure and healing, hemostasis, bone repair, drug delivery, smart sensors, and biological coatings.
“Their fascinating properties benefit their application in numerous biomedical fields, such as wound closure and healing [36,37], hemostasis [38,39], bone repair [40,41], drug delivery [42,43], smart sensors [44], biological coatings [45], etc. (Figure 2).”
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The coordination of catechol and Fe3+ is strongly influenced by pH.
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- Liang, Y., Xu, H., Li, Z., Zhangji, A., & Guo, B.
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
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- Guo, Baolin
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- 2022-09-13
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Wound Healing and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
- Keywords
- self-healing hydrogels, wound closure, wound healing, sodium alginate, gelatin, protocatechuic aldehyde, Schiff base crosslinking, mussel-inspired adhesives, antioxidant activity, hemostasis, hydrogel dressing, incision closure
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