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Fabrication, Characterization, and in Vitro Evaluation of Silver-Containing Arabinoxylan Foams as Antimicrobial Wound Dressing
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A
  • Donald C. Aduba, Jr.
  • Seon-Sook An
  • Gretchen S. Selders
  • Juan Wang
  • W. Andrew Yeudall
  • Gary L. Bowlin
  • Todd Kitten
  • Hu Yang, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Arabinoxylan ferulate (AXF) foams were fabricated via enzymatic peroxidase/hydrogen peroxide crosslinking reaction followed by freeze-drying and studied as a potential wound dressing material. The AXF foam's rheological, morphological, porous, and swelling properties were examined. AXF foams were found to be a viscoelastic material that proved to be highly porous and water absorbent. AXF foams possessed low endotoxin levels and were cytocompatible with fibroblasts. Silver was successfully integrated into AXF foams and slowly released over 48 h. AXF foams impregnated with silver demonstrated efficacy inhibiting bacterial growth according to a modified Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion susceptibility test. Overall, AXF foams possess appropriate material properties and the silver-loaded AXF foams showed antimicrobial activity necessary to be a candidate material in wound dressing development.

Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Comments

This work was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (CAREER award CBET0954957) and National Institutes of Health (R01EY024072).

Keywords and Phrases
  • arabinoxylan,
  • Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion susceptibility test,
  • polysaccharide,
  • silver dressing,
  • wound healing
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Inc., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
10-1-2016
Publication Date
01 Oct 2016
PubMed ID
27199211
Citation Information
Donald C. Aduba, Seon-Sook An, Gretchen S. Selders, Juan Wang, et al.. "Fabrication, Characterization, and in Vitro Evaluation of Silver-Containing Arabinoxylan Foams as Antimicrobial Wound Dressing" Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A Vol. 104 Iss. 10 (2016) p. 2456 - 2465 ISSN: 1549-3296; 1552-4965
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hu-yang/27/