TY  - JOUR
JF  - Wound Repair and Regeneration
TI  - Fluorimetric ex vivo quantification of protease debriding efficacy on natural substrate
IS  - 6
VL  - 28
SP  - 844
N2  - Debridement is the process of removal of necrotic and infected tissue to clean a wound or burn and expedite healing. Proteases such as papain, bromelain and collagenase that promote debridement by degrading proteins in the dead tissue are in use today. However, the only method to measure debriding efficacy in vitro is the fluorescent monitoring of the digestion of an Artificial Wound Eschar (AWE) substrate. This AWE substrate contains a pellet of only three eschar matrix proteins collagen, elastin, and fibrin which do not account for the complexity and the composition of necrotic tissue. Here, we describe an ex vivo method using dry necrotic full thickness human skin and ortho-phthalaldehyde (OPA), a molecule commonly used for sensitive fluorimetric protein detection to monitor debridement activity. We advocate this simple yet sensitive approach to detect debridement efficacy that can readily be used commercially to benchmark products prior to in vivo testing. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
ID  - discovery10111472
AV  - public
A1  - Vootukuri, RS
A1  - Philpott, MP
A1  - Trigiante, G
Y1  - 2020/11//
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/wrr.12864
EP  - 847
N1  - Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Wound Repair and Regeneration published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Wound Healing Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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