PMID- 36587554 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230118 LR - 20230118 IS - 1950-6007 (Electronic) IS - 0753-3322 (Linking) VI - 158 DP - 2023 Feb TI - Graphene-Based Materials for Inhibition of Wound Infection and Accelerating Wound Healing. PG - 114184 LID - S0753-3322(22)01573-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.114184 [doi] AB - Bacterial infection of the wound could potentially cause serious complications and an enormous medical and financial cost to the rapid emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Nanomaterials are an emerging technology, that has been researched as possible antimicrobial nanomaterials for the inhibition of wound infection and enhancement of wound healing. Graphene is 2-dimensional (2D) sheet of sp(2) carbon atoms in a honeycomb structure. It has superior properties, strength, conductivity, antimicrobial, and molecular carrier abilities. Graphene and its derivatives, Graphene oxide (GO) and reduced GO (rGO), have antibacterial activity and could damage bacterial morphology and lead to the leakage of intracellular substances. Besides, for wound infection management, Graphene-platforms could be functionalized by different antibacterial agents such as metal-nanoparticles, natural compounds, and antibiotics. The Graphene structure can absorb near-infrared wavelengths, allowing it to be used as antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. Therefore, Graphene-based material could be used to inhibit pathogens that cause serious skin infections and destroy their biofilm community, which is one of the biggest challenges in treating wound infection. Due to its agglomerated structure, GO hydrogel could entrap and stack the bacteria; thus, it prevents their initial attachment and biofilm formation. The sharp edges of GO could destroy the extracellular polymeric substance surrounding the biofilm and ruin the biofilm biomass structure. As well as, Chitosan and different natural and synthetic polymers such as collagen and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) also have attracted a great deal of attention for use with GO as wound dressing material. To this end, multi-functional polymers based on Graphene and blends of synthetic and natural polymers can be considered valid non-antibiotic compounds useful against wound infection and improvement of wound healing. Finally, the global wound care market size was valued at USD 20.8 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4% from 2022 to 2027 (USD 27.2 billion). This will encourage academic as well as pharmaceutical and medical device industries to investigate any new materials such as graphene and its derivatives for the treatment of wound healing. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.. All rights reserved. FAU - Shariati, Aref AU - Shariati A AD - Molecular and medicine research center, Khomein University of Medical Sciences, Khomein, Iran. FAU - Hosseini, Seyed Mostafa AU - Hosseini SM AD - Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Chegini, Zahra AU - Chegini Z AD - Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Seifalian, Amelia AU - Seifalian A AD - Department of Urogynaecology and Surgery, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. FAU - Arabestani, Mohammad Reza AU - Arabestani MR AD - Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. Electronic address: mohammad.arabestani@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20221230 PL - France TA - Biomed Pharmacother JT - Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie JID - 8213295 RN - 0 (graphene oxide) RN - 7782-42-5 (Graphite) RN - 0 (Anti-Bacterial Agents) RN - 0 (Anti-Infective Agents) RN - 9012-76-4 (Chitosan) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Graphite/pharmacology/chemistry MH - Extracellular Polymeric Substance Matrix MH - Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology/therapeutic use/chemistry MH - *Anti-Infective Agents/pharmacology MH - Wound Healing MH - Bacteria MH - *Chitosan/chemistry MH - *Wound Infection/drug therapy OTO - NOTNLM OT - Graphene OT - Graphene oxide OT - Reduced graphene oxide, wound, infection COIS- Conflict of interest statement The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/01/02 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/19 06:00 CRDT- 2023/01/01 18:14 PHST- 2022/11/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/12/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/12/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/01/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2023/01/01 18:14 [entrez] AID - S0753-3322(22)01573-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.114184 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biomed Pharmacother. 2023 Feb;158:114184. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.114184. Epub 2022 Dec 30.