Abstract
Drug-resistant bacterial infections can easily lead to delayed wound healing and pose a serious threat to patients' health. Therefore, it was imperative to develop wound dressings to solve this problem. Herein, we developed a hydrogel based on laponite and polyacrylamide (PAAG/LAP) and loaded with tea tree oil nano-emulsion (nanoTTO) by a simple one-step mixing method via the principle of photopolymerization and its potential use and safety for MRSA-infected skin wounds. The evaluation showed that the PAAG/LAP/nanoTTO30 % hydrogel exhibited excellent compressive resistance (∼85 kPa), good biocompatibility, and great antibacterial properties against MRSA in vitro and in vivo (over 90 %). Cell migration results showed that the relative wound area ratio of the PAAG/LAP/nanoTTO30 % hydrogel treatment group (∼55.18 %) was significantly lower than that of the control group (∼68.89 %). The results of the in vivo infection rat model showed that compared with other control groups, the PAAG/LAP/nanoTTO30 % hydrogel treatment group had the lowest relative wound area ratio (8.78 %) within 12 days. Moreover, the results showed the PAAG/LAP/nanoTTO30 % hydrogel could promote MRSA-infected wound healing by directly killing bacteria and promoting angiogenesis. In conclusion, our study provided an antibacterial hydrogel dressing that does not require loading antibiotics for wounds infected by drug-resistant bacteria, expecting to achieve infected wound healing.
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