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  • Title: Electrospun nanostructured chitosan-poly(vinyl alcohol) scaffolds: a biomimetic extracellular matrix as dermal substitute.
    Author: Sundaramurthi D, Vasanthan KS, Kuppan P, Krishnan UM, Sethuraman S.
    Journal: Biomed Mater; 2012 Aug; 7(4):045005. PubMed ID: 22570176.
    Abstract:
    Electrospinning is a versatile technique to make biomimetic and nanostructured scaffolds for skin tissue engineering. In this study we have electrospun and characterized chitosan (C)-poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) blend nanofibers as dermal substitutes and compared with 2D C-PVA films. The in vitro characterization of the C-PVA nanofibers and 2D films were evaluated using mouse 3T3 fibroblast cells and our results demonstrated that the cells adhered and proliferated on the surface of C-PVA nanofibers. In our animal studies, the implantation of C-PVA nanofibers along with topical administration of growth factor R-Spondin 1 on full thickness wounds created on rats showed 98.6% wound closure after two weeks post-surgery. The catalase and superoxide dismutase activity of the healing tissue was significantly higher in the groups treated with topical administration of growth factor and C-PVA nanofibers (p < 0.05). Thus these C-PVA nanofibers along with novel growth factor are promising new biomaterials that could be used as dermal substitutes for accelerated wound healing.
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