Drug therapies and delivery mechanisms to treat perturbed skin wound healing

• Main Authors: Chin, Jiah Shin, Madden, Leigh, Chew, Sing Yian, Becker, David Lawrence
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Chronic Wound; Diabetic Foot Ulcer
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146771
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Acute wound healing is an orderly process of four overlapping events: haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation and remodelling. A drug delivery system with a temporal control of release could promote each of these events sequentially. However, acute wound healing normally proceeds very well in healt...