Antimicrobial Dressings: The Wound Care Applications explores the literature surrounding the catalytic behavior of proteolytic enzymes immobilized together with nanoparticles. As numerous applications using proteolytic enzymes for debridement, silver as antibiotic and nanoparticles for enzyme immobilization were developed in the last years, this book explores interdisciplinary information combining nanotechnology, biotechnology and medicine and how it's still in early stages. The book adopts a holistic approach in a lifecycle context to evaluate their final feasibility, including industrial exploitability without disregard of the potential risks of enzymes and nanomaterials to human health and the environment.
1. Antimicrobial Dressings - p. ii 2. Cover - p. ii 3. Title Page - p. ii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. List of Contributors - p. xi 7. Chapter 1 Overview and summary of antimicrobial wound dressings and its biomedical applications - p. 1 8. Chapter 2 Traditional and modern wound dressings—characteristics of ideal wound dressings - p. 21 9. Chapter 3 Nanoparticles as potential antimicrobial agents for enzyme immobilization in antimicrobial wound dressings - p. 43 10. Chapter 4 Polyelectrolyte assembly with nanoparticle-immobilized enzymes - p. 61 11. Chapter 5 Role of debridement and its biocompatibility in antimicrobial wound dressings - p. 89 12. Chapter 6 Different methods for nanomaterial-based immobilization of enzymes - p. 113 13. Chapter 7 Kinetic, stability, and activity of the nanoparticles-immobilized enzymes - p. 133 14. Chapter 8 Antibacterial hydrogel dressings and their applications in wound treatment - p. 153 15. Chapter 9 Medicated wound dressings - p. 187 16. Chapter 10 Clinical effectiveness of antimicrobial dressings - p. 203 17. Chapter 11 Future research directions of antimicrobial wound dressings - p. 229 18. Index - p. 247
Antimicrobial Dressings: The Wound Care Applications explores the literature surrounding the catalytic behavior of proteolytic enzymes immobilized together with nanoparticles. As numerous applications using proteolytic enzymes for debridement, silver as antibiotic and nanoparticles for enzyme immobilization were developed in the last years, this book explores interdisciplinary information combining nanotechnology, biotechnology and medicine and how it's still in early stages. The book adopts a holistic approach in a lifecycle context to evaluate their final feasibility, including industrial exploitability without disregard of the potential risks of enzymes and nanomaterials to human health and the environment.
1. Antimicrobial Dressings - p. ii 2. Cover - p. ii 3. Title Page - p. ii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. List of Contributors - p. xi 7. Chapter 1 Overview and summary of antimicrobial wound dressings and its biomedical applications - p. 1 8. Chapter 2 Traditional and modern wound dressings—characteristics of ideal wound dressings - p. 21 9. Chapter 3 Nanoparticles as potential antimicrobial agents for enzyme immobilization in antimicrobial wound dressings - p. 43 10. Chapter 4 Polyelectrolyte assembly with nanoparticle-immobilized enzymes - p. 61 11. Chapter 5 Role of debridement and its biocompatibility in antimicrobial wound dressings - p. 89 12. Chapter 6 Different methods for nanomaterial-based immobilization of enzymes - p. 113 13. Chapter 7 Kinetic, stability, and activity of the nanoparticles-immobilized enzymes - p. 133 14. Chapter 8 Antibacterial hydrogel dressings and their applications in wound treatment - p. 153 15. Chapter 9 Medicated wound dressings - p. 187 16. Chapter 10 Clinical effectiveness of antimicrobial dressings - p. 203 17. Chapter 11 Future research directions of antimicrobial wound dressings - p. 229 18. Index - p. 247
