Effective delivery of doxycycline and epidermal growth factor for expedited healing of chronic wounds.
The problems and high medical costs associated with chronic wounds necessitate an economical bioactive wound dressing. A new strategy was investigated to inhibit MMP-9 proteases and to release epidermal growth factor (EGF) to enhance healing. Doxycycline (DOX) and EGF were encapsulated on polyacryli...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/9816 |