TY  - JOUR
KW  - Ciprofloxacin
KW  -  Electrospinning
KW  -  P(LLA-CL)
KW  -  PDEGMA
KW  -  Thermosensitive
KW  -  Wound dressing
N2  - To obtain wound dressings which could be removed easily without secondary injuries, we prepared thermoresponsive electrospun fiber mats containing poly(di(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) (PDEGMA). Blend fibers of PDEGMA and poly(l-lactic acid-co-?-caprolactone) (P(LLA-CL) were fabricated via electrospinning, and analogous fibers containing the antibiotic ciprofloxacin (CIF) were also prepared. Smooth cylindrical fibers were obtained, albeit with a small amount of beading visible for the ciprofloxacin-loaded fibers. X-ray diffraction showed the drug to exist in the amorphous physical form post-electrospinning. The composite fibers showed distinct thermosensitive properties and gave sustained release of CIF over more than 160h in vitro. The fibers could promote the proliferation of fibroblasts, and by varying the temperature cells could easily be attached to and detached from the fibers. Antibacterial tests demonstrated that fibers loaded with ciprofloxacin were effective in inhibiting the growth of E. coli and S. aureus. In vivo investigations on rats indicated that the composite PDEGMA/P(LLA-CL) fibers loaded with CIF had much more potent wound healing properties than a commercial gauze and CIF-loaded fibers made solely of P(LLA-CL). These results demonstrate the potential of PDEGMA/P(LLA-CL)/ciprofloxacin fibers as advanced wound dressing materials.
ID  - discovery1532670
AV  - public
Y1  - 2017/01/30/
EP  - 147
TI  - Thermosensitive nanofibers loaded with ciprofloxacin as antibacterial wound dressing materials
A1  - Li, H
A1  - Williams, GR
A1  - Wu, J
A1  - Lv, Y
A1  - Sun, X
A1  - Wu, H
A1  - Zhu, LM
JF  - International Journal of Pharmaceutics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2016.12.008
SN  - 1873-3476
IS  - 1-2
N1  - Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
VL  - 517
SP  - 135
ER  -