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Synergetic burns treatment by self-adaption release system combined with cold atmospheric plasma

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In the tissue remodeling stage of burns, excessive medical therapy can cause scarring by promoting excessive fibroblast proliferation and collagen deposition. Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has emerged in biomedicine for its excellent sterilization and wound-healing function, which is expected to reduce the use of drugs in burns treatment. Here, a novel therapy that could rapidly heal burns was developed using a combined self-adaption release system with CAP. The self-adaption release system (Cur-ZIF8@HA) used curcumin (Cur) as the therapeutic drug and ZIF-8 modified with hyaluronic acid (HA) as the carrier. In vitro study results showed that combined treatment methods can inactivate bacteria and enhance fibroblast cells’ migration and proliferation. In vivo animal wound healing studies have demonstrated that the synergistic treatment of Cur-ZIF8@HA and CAP can help fibroblast proliferation and stimulate angiogenesis, indicating effective wound healing. More importantly, CAP can reduce collagen synthesis in granulation tissue recombination and further inhibit scar formation by combining with Cur-ZIF8@HA. In the biomedical field, these findings underscore to a large extent that our research will open up new possibilities for the interaction of nanotechnology with new technologies of physical principles.

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  1. School of Pharmacy, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China

    XiaoXia Wang, LiPing Zhao, HuiJie Yang, JiaMin Qin, JingQi Zhang, JiaXuan Zhao, XiuWen Guan, WeiFen Zhang & JinLong Ma

  2. Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China

    ZhiJun Liu & XiuWen Guan

  3. Shandong Engineering Research Center for Smart Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China

    WeiFen Zhang & JinLong Ma

  4. Collaborative Innovation Center for Target Drug Delivery System, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China

    XiuWen Guan, WeiFen Zhang & JinLong Ma

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81973671), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant Nos. ZR2019BB071, ZR2019MC059, ZR2023QH038, and ZR2023MH037), the Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Project of Shandong Province (Grant Nos. M-2023084 and Q-2023047), and the Science and Technology Innovation Fund for College Students of Weifang Medical University.

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Wang, X., Liu, Z., Zhao, L. et al. Synergetic burns treatment by self-adaption release system combined with cold atmospheric plasma. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 66, 2808–2823 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-022-2258-x

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