Futuristic hydrogels help protect the wounds of all types of bacteria
Researchers with Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology have detailed the development of a phyturistic phyturistic hydrogel which can one day be used in exchange for protecting the wound. Hydrogels are described very effective against all bacterial varieties, including antibiotic antibiotic bacteria that are increasingly problematic.
Hydrogel material displays a small protein called antimicrobial peptide, which is naturally found as part of the immune system. This peptide has been the subject of various potential medical applications for years, but there have been consistent problems: body fluids quickly break.
This newly published study details the hydrogel nanosture that eliminates this problem, produces non-toxic materials and can be used to directly apply antimicrobial peptides to the skin without relegation quickly. Although hydrogels can be used in various products, researchers imagine it mainly instead of wound care.
The material can offer hospitals and the general public is an alternative antibiotic to protect and help treat various injured infections. Materials can help overcome the problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria by treating it and reducing dependence on antibiotics that encourage it.
According to the University, the company Amferia AB wants to bring hydrogel material to the market, an effort that will require clinical studies, among others. The current material in testing throughout Europe in several animal clinics and clinical studies is ongoing.
