Abstract
Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) is the primary cause of infectious blindness. Despite impressive therapeutic outcomes of conventional treatments, HSV-1 drug resistance can be easily developed. Thus, more constructive strategies should be implemented. Led by this inspiration, this work describes the potential utility of a biodegradable silk fibroin/collagen (SF/Col) film combined with GI-20-loaded poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) nanoparticle to provide efficient and sustained delivery platform for synthetic GI-20 peptide against HSV-1. A non-irritant film containing 90% SF and 10% Col incorporated with mentioned nanodrug showed some optimum physicochemical properties including loading efficiency (74.15% ± 1.12), tensile strength (3.16±0.67MPa), water uptake ability (∼73%), cytocompatibility (viable up to 35µg/mL of GI-20), and sustained release paradigm (∼90% within 14days). Also, GI-20 peptide at concentration of 35µg/mL could prophylactically attenuate viral titration by 5 log10 units. In addition, the corneal uptake was improved without vascular irritation. In accordance with in vitro results, no hallmarks of keratitis and significant neovascularization along with ignorable inflammatory responses were obtained. Taken together, these results could guarantee the potential of mentioned multifunctional biomaterial in the healing of infected corneal tissue.
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