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Castro PAA, Lima CA, Morais MRPT, Zorn TMT, Zezell DM. Monitoring the Progress and Healing Status of Burn Wounds Using Infrared Spectroscopy. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 74:758-766. [PMID: 32419472 DOI: 10.1177/0003702820919446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Burns are one of the leading causes of morbidity worldwide and the most costly traumatic injuries. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms in wound healing is required to accelerate tissue recovery and reduce the health economic impact. However, the standard techniques used to evaluate the biological events associated to wound repair are laborious, time-consuming, and/or require multiple assays/staining. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the feasibility of Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy to monitor the progress and healing status of burn wounds. Burn injuries were induced on Wistar rats by water vapor exposure and biopsied for further histopathological and spectroscopic evaluation at four time-points (3, 7, 14, and 21 days). Spectral data were preprocessed and compared by principal component analysis. Pairwise comparison of post-burn groups to each other revealed that metabolic activity induced by thermal injury decreases as the healing progresses. Higher amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids were evidenced on days 3 and 7 compared to healthy skin and reduced amounts of these molecular structural units on days 14 and 21 post-burn. FT-IR spectroscopy was used to determine the healing status of a wound based on the biochemical information retained by spectral signatures in each phase of healing. Our findings demonstrate that FT-IR spectroscopy can monitor the biological events triggered by burn trauma as well as to detect the wound status including full recovery based on the spectral changes associated to the biochemical events in each phase.
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- Pedro A A Castro
- Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares (IPEN-CNEN/SP), University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares (IPEN-CNEN/SP), University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas (ICB), University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas (ICB), University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares (IPEN-CNEN/SP), University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Gustafsson Å, Krais AM, Gorzsás A, Lundh T, Gerde P. Isolation and characterization of a respirable particle fraction from residential house-dust. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2018; 161:284-290. [PMID: 29172162 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.10.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2017] [Revised: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/28/2017] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Indoor air pollution has caused increasing concern in recent years. As we spend most of our lives indoors, it is crucial to understand the health effects caused by indoor air pollution. Household dust serve as good proxy for accessing indoor air pollution, especially smaller dust particles that can pass into the lungs are of interest. In this study we present an efficient method for the isolation of dust particles in the respirable size range. The respirable fraction was recovered from vacuum cleaner bags, separated by stepwise sieving, followed by characterization for size, morphology, surface area, organic content and elemental composition. The respirable fraction was obtained in a yield of 0.6% with a specific surface area of 2.5m2/g and a Mass Median Aerodynamic Diameter of 3.73 ± 0.15µm. Aluminum and zink were the dominating metals measured in the dust, whereas the major mineral components were found to be silicon dioxide and calcium carbonate. The fraction of organic matter in the dust was measured to be 69 ± 1%. The organic matrix contained bacterial and fungi and a presence of skin fragments. We present here an efficient and fast method for the isolation of dust particles in the respirable size range. That is of considerable value due to the need for large quantities of respirable particle fractions to conduct toxicological studies and risk assessment work.
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- Åsa Gustafsson
- Swetox, Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Toxicology Sciences, Forskargatan 20, SE-151 36 Södertälje, Sweden; Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 6, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
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- Swetox, Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Toxicology Sciences, Forskargatan 20, SE-151 36 Södertälje, Sweden; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 6, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
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- Swetox, Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Toxicology Sciences, Forskargatan 20, SE-151 36 Södertälje, Sweden; Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Box 287, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Utility of Non-Invasive Multimodal Imaging in Chronic Wound Monitoring: a Systematic Review. J Med Syst 2017; 41:46. [PMID: 28194684 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-016-0679-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Monitoring chronic wound [CW] healing is a challenging issue for clinicians across the world. Moreover, the health and cost burden of CW are escalating at a disturbing rate due to a global rise in population of elderly and diabetic cases. The conventional approach includes visual contour, sketches, or more rarely tracings. However, such conventional techniques bring forth infection, pain, allergies. Furthermore, these methods are subjective as well as time-consuming. As such, nowadays, non-touching and non-invasive CW monitoring system based on imaging techniques are gaining importance. They not only reduce patients' discomfort but also provide rapid wound diagnosis and prognosis. This review provides a survey of different types of CW characteristics, their healing mechanism and the multimodal non-invasive imaging methods that have been used for their diagnosis and prognosis. Current clinical practices as well as personal health systems [m-health and e-health] for CW monitoring have been discussed.
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Duangjit S, Nimcharoenwan T, Chomya N, Locharoenrat N, Ngawhirunpat T. Computational design strategy: an approach to enhancing the transdermal delivery of optimal capsaicin-loaded transinvasomes. Drug Dev Ind Pharm 2016; 43:98-107. [DOI: 10.1080/03639045.2016.1220575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Sureewan Duangjit
- Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
- Pharmaceutical Development of Green Innovation Group (PDGIG), Faculty of Pharmacy, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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- Pharmaceutical Development of Green Innovation Group (PDGIG), Faculty of Pharmacy, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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Paul DW, Ghassemi P, Ramella-Roman JC, Prindeze NJ, Moffatt LT, Alkhalil A, Shupp JW. Noninvasive imaging technologies for cutaneous wound assessment: A review. Wound Repair Regen 2015; 23:149-62. [PMID: 25832563 DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The ability to phenotype wounds for the purposes of assessing severity, healing potential and treatment is an important function of evidence-based medicine. A variety of optical technologies are currently in development for noninvasive wound assessment. To varying extents, these optical technologies have the potential to supplement traditional clinical wound evaluation and research, by providing detailed information regarding skin components imperceptible to visual inspection. These assessments are achieved through quantitative optical analysis of tissue characteristics including blood flow, collagen remodeling, hemoglobin content, inflammation, temperature, vascular structure, and water content. Technologies that have, to this date, been applied to wound assessment include: near infrared imaging, thermal imaging, optical coherence tomography, orthogonal polarization spectral imaging, fluorescence imaging, laser Doppler imaging, microscopy, spatial frequency domain imaging, photoacoustic detection, and spectral/hyperspectral imaging. We present a review of the technologies in use or development for these purposes with three aims: (1) providing basic explanations of imaging technology concepts, (2) reviewing the wound imaging literature, and (3) providing insight into areas for further application and exploration. Noninvasive imaging is a promising advancement in wound assessment and all technologies require further validation.
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- Dereck W Paul
- The Firefighters' Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
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- The Firefighters' Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
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- The Firefighters' Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
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- The Firefighters' Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
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- The Firefighters' Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC
- Department of Surgery, The Burn Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
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Planz V, Franzen L, Windbergs M. Novel in vitro approaches for the simulation and analysis of human skin wounds. Skin Pharmacol Physiol 2014; 28:91-6. [PMID: 25341368 DOI: 10.1159/000364810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2014] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Considering the increasing incidence of chronic wounds and severe wound infections, effective drug delivery to wounded skin is of high importance. The rational development of novel therapeutic systems requires appropriate in vitro testing methodologies. In this context, suitable and reliable in vitro models simulating human wounds and advanced analytical techniques for precise wound characterization are urgently needed. In this study, we introduce a novel in vitro model based on excised human skin. In contrast to the established wound models, our novel approach has a coffin-shaped, linear, rectangular geometry with defined wound edges exhibiting consistent appearance along the entire wound bed. In addition, we introduce optical profilometry as a novel technique for nondestructive wound analysis. We successfully demonstrate the applicability of this optical imaging method based on white light reflection for three-dimensional visualization of different wound models. Furthermore, we create virtual noninvasive cross sections of these wounds to assess wound geometry in direct comparison to conventional histological analysis. Imaging analysis of our novel coffin-shaped model resulted in reproducible virtual sections along the entire wound bed. Our findings indicate the potential of our novel in vitro model for improved simulation of human wounds. Further, we successfully overcome the limitations of conventional histological analysis by the employment of optical profilometry for nondestructive three-dimensional wound characterization.
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- Viktoria Planz
- Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Characterization of the structure of human skin substitutes by infrared microspectroscopy. Anal Bioanal Chem 2013; 405:8709-18. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-7103-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2013] [Revised: 05/17/2013] [Accepted: 05/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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