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Freshly Prepared Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles’ Wound-Healing Potential and Antibacterial Activity Specifically Against Staphylococcus aureus: In Vivo Efficacy and Clinical Isolate Evaluation

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Graphene oxide (GO) exhibits several characteristics worthy of biomedical applications. The current study aimed to synthesize graphene oxide nanoparticles (GONPs) for antibacterial and wound-healing efficacy evaluations. The GONPs were prepared using Hummer’s method and characterized by FT-IR, UV-Vis, Raman, SEM spectroscopic, and electron micrograph-based analyses, respectively, to confirm the structure and morphology. The analyses revealed GONPs as flaky, nano-sheeted structures with irregular shapes and sizes that were stacked on top of each other. The clinical isolates of gram-negative, i.e., Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as well as gram-positive, i.e., Staphylococcus aureus, microbes were incubated for 24 h at 37 ℃ with 62.5, 125, and 250 µg/ml concentrations of the freshly prepared GONPs which showed significant antimicrobial activity. All the pathogens were comparatively more active to 250 µg/ml concentration of GONPs with inhibition zone diameters reaching 17.06, 15.10, 31.00, and 18.36 mm, respectively, as compared with the 250 µg/ml concentration of cephalexin. The S. aureus–infected mouse wound-infection model utilized for in vivo investigation showed healing, when treated, twice daily, for 15 days, with GONPs at 250 and 500 mg/kg doses. The wound’s contraction was observed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of the GONPs. The average wound healing of the treated groups was higher than that of the control. The animal groups treated with 500 mg/kg GONPs performed the highest levels of healing, reaching 99% of the healed animals within 15 days. Current findings suggested the potential of GONPs to serve as an agent for wound healing with antibacterial activity.

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    Wisam A. Fadhil, Iman I. Jabbar, Entesar H. Ali & Ghassan M. Sulaiman

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  3. Department of Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Conceptualization and methodology: Wisam A. Fadhil, Iman I. Jabbar, and Entesar H. Ali; formal analysis: Ghassan M. Sulaiman; investigation and data curation: Ghassan M. Sulaiman, Riaz A. Khan, and Hamdoon A. Mohammed; validation: Riaz A. Khan and Hamdoon A. Mohammed; visualization: Riaz A. Khan and Hamdoon A. Mohammed; original draft preparation: Wisam A. Fadhil, Iman I. Jabbar, and Entesar H. Ali; writing—review and editing: Ghassan M. Sulaiman, Riaz A. Khan, and Hamdoon A. Mohammed; supervision: Iman I. Jabbar and Entesar H. Ali. All authors gave approval to the final version of the manuscript.

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Fadhil, W.A., Jabbar, I.I., Ali, E.H. et al. Freshly Prepared Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles’ Wound-Healing Potential and Antibacterial Activity Specifically Against Staphylococcus aureus: In Vivo Efficacy and Clinical Isolate Evaluation. Plasmonics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-024-02296-3

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