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Dall’Olio AJ, Matias GDSS, Carreira ACO, de Carvalho HJC, van den Broek Campanelli T, da Silva TS, da Silva MD, Abreu-Silva AL, Miglino MA. Biological Graft as an Innovative Biomaterial for Complex Skin Wound Treatment in Dogs: A Preliminary Report. Materials (Basel) 2022; 15:6027. [PMID: 36079408 PMCID: PMC9456771 DOI: 10.3390/ma15176027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Complex wounds in dogs are a recurrent problem in veterinary clinical application and can compromise skin healing; in this sense, tissue bioengineering focused on regenerative medicine can be a great ally. Decellularized and recellularized skin scaffolds are produced to be applied in different and complex canine dermal wounds in the present investigation. Dog skin fragments are immersed in a 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solution at room temperature and overnight at 4 °C for 12 days. Decellularized samples are evaluated by histological analysis, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and gDNA quantification. Some fragments are also recellularized using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Eight adult dogs are divided into three groups for the application of the decellularized (Group I, n = 3) and recellularized scaffolds (Group II, n = 3) on injured areas, and a control group (Group III, n = 2). Wounds are evaluated and measured during healing, and comparisons among the three groups are described. In 30- and 60-day post-grafting, the histopathological analysis of patients from Groups I and II shows similar patterns, tissue architecture preservation, epithelial hyperplasia, hyperkeratosis, edema, and mononuclear inflammatory infiltrate. Perfect integration between scaffolds and wounds, without rejection or contamination, are observed in both treated groups. According to these results, decellularized skin grafts may constitute a potential innovative and functional tool to be adopted as a promising dog cutaneous wound treatment. This is the first study that applies decellularized and recellularized biological skin grafts to improve the healing process in several complex wounds in dogs, demonstrating great potential for regenerative veterinary medicine progress.
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- Adriano Jaskonis Dall’Olio
- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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- Department of Veterinary Pathology, State University of Maranhão, Maranhão 65055-150, Brazil
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- Surgery Department, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-270, Brazil
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Lee WJ, Kim MJ, Choi HW, Lee JJ, Jung SK. Effect of Methyl Gallate on 1-Nitropyrene-Induced Keratinocyte Toxicity in a Human and Canine Skin Model. J Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 32:869-876. [PMID: 35880479 PMCID: PMC9628917 DOI: 10.4014/jmb.2206.06004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The skin, which is the largest organ of the human body, is in direct contact with pollutants in the surrounding atmosphere. Meanwhile, 1-nitropyrene (1-NP), the most abundant nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon found in particulate matter, is known to have carcinogenic effects; however, studies on its toxicity in human and canine skin are still needed. In this study, we investigated 1-NP-induced apoptosis and inflammatory pathways in HaCaT cells. In addition, we also measured the cytoprotective effect of methyl gallate (MG), which is widely distributed in medicinal and edible plants and is well known for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. MG inhibited 1-NP-induced cell death and apoptosis pathways, including the cleavage of PARP and activation of caspase-3, -7, and -9. MG also suppressed 1-NP-induced COX-2 expression and phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and MAPK kinases (MAPKKs). Our findings suggest that 1-NP induces skin toxicity in human and canine through apoptosis and inflammatory responses, and moreover, that this can be prevented by treatment with MG.
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- Woo Jin Lee
- School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Functional Food and Biotechnology, Jeonju University, Jeonju 55069, Republic of Korea
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- Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea,Corresponding authors J.J. Lee Phone: +82-53-950-6654 E-mail:
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- School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea,Tailored Food Technology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea,
S.K. Jung Phone: +82-53-950-7764 Fax: +82-53-950-7762 E-mail:
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Cugmas B, Štruc E, Kovče U, Lužar K, Olivry T. Evaluation of native canine skin color by smartphone-based dermatoscopy. Skin Res Technol 2022; 28:299-304. [PMID: 35064590 PMCID: PMC9907669 DOI: 10.1111/srt.13130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Human skin color, predominantly determined by the chromophores of melanin, hemoglobin, and exogenous carotenoids, is often measured to serve various medical and cosmetic applications. Although colorimetry has been used to evaluate the skin erythema in allergic dogs, the native canine skin color remains unknown. METHODS We measured the skin color in 101 healthy dogs using a calibrated optical system with a smartphone and a mobile dermatoscope DermLite DL1. The results were retrieved in the CIELAB color system and compared to the human color ranges. RESULTS The lightness (L*) of canine skin ranged from 28.5 to 78.3, which is slightly broader than that of human skin. There was a difference of 3.9 in redness (a*) between canine and human skin, but this variation could be attributed to the similarly valued colorimetric error of the optical system. Nonetheless, the skin yellowness was significantly different for dogs and humans (respective median b* of 12.3 versus 16.6, p < 0.01). This difference might be due to canids not being able to accumulate typically yellowish carotenoids. Furthermore, the native canine skin color did not exhibit a typical dependence between the coordinates of lightness (L*) and yellowness (b*), known as the individual typology angle, °ITA. CONCLUSION We reported the first dataset of the native canine skin color in the CIELAB color space. We discovered a similarity in skin lightness and a difference in skin yellowness. However, further studies are needed for a more precise comparison of skin redness.
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- Blaž Cugmas
- Biophotonics laboratory, Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy, University of Latvia, Rīga, Latvia.,Veterinary clinic Zamba, Vets4science Ltd, Celje, Slovenia
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- Veterinary clinic Zamba, Vets4science Ltd, Celje, Slovenia
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- Veterinary clinic Zamba, Vets4science Ltd, Celje, Slovenia
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Liu H, Laflamme S, Zellner EM, Aertsens A, Bentil SA, Rivero IV, Secord TW. Soft Elastomeric Capacitor for Strain and Stress Monitoring on Sutured Skin Tissues. ACS Sens 2021; 6:3706-3714. [PMID: 34582189 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c01477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Sutures are ubiquitous medical devices for wound closures in human and veterinary medicine, and suture techniques are frequently evaluated by comparing tensile strengths in ex vivo studies. Direct and nondestructive measurement of tensile force present in sutured biological skin tissue is a key challenge in biomechanical fields because of the unique and complex properties of each sutured skin specimen and the lack of compliant sensors capable of monitoring large levels of strain. The authors have recently proposed a soft elastomeric capacitor (SEC) sensor that consists of a highly compliant and scalable strain gauge capable of transducing geometric variations into a measurable change in capacitance. In this study, corrugated SECs are used to experimentally characterize the inherent biomechanical properties of canine skin specimens. In particular, an SEC corrugated with a re-entrant hexagonal honeycomb pattern is studied to monitor strain and stresses for three specific suture patterns: simple interrupted, cruciate, and intradermal patterns. Stress is estimated using constitutive models based on the Fractional Zener and the Kelvin-Voigt models, parametrized using a particle swarm algorithm from experimental data and results from a validated finite element model. Results are benchmarked against findings from the literature and show that SECs are valuable for clinical evaluation of tensile force in biological skins. It was found that both the ranking of suture pattern performance and the sutured skin's Young's modulus using the proposed approach agreed with data reported in the literature and that the estimated stress at the suture level closely matched that of an approximate finite element model.
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- Han Liu
- Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, United States
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Cugmas B, Štruc E. Accuracy of an Affordable Smartphone-Based Teledermoscopy System for Color Measurements in Canine Skin. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:E6234. [PMID: 33142901 PMCID: PMC7662536 DOI: 10.3390/s20216234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Quality smartphone cameras and affordable dermatoscopes have enabled teledermoscopy to become a popular medical and veterinary tool for analyzing skin lesions such as melanoma and erythema. However, smartphones acquire images in an unknown RGB color space, which prevents a standardized colorimetric skin analysis. In this work, we supplemented a typical veterinary teledermoscopy system with a conventional color calibration procedure, and we studied two mid-priced smartphones in evaluating native and erythematous canine skin color. In a laboratory setting with the ColorChecker, the teledermoscopy system reached CIELAB-based color differences ΔE of 1.8-6.6 (CIE76) and 1.1-4.5 (CIE94). Intra- and inter-smartphone variability resulted in the color differences (CIE76) of 0.1, and 2.0-3.9, depending on the selected color range. Preliminary clinical measurements showed that canine skin is less red and yellow (lower a* and b* for ΔE of 10.7) than standard Caucasian human skin. Estimating the severity of skin erythema with an erythema index led to errors between 0.5-3%. After constructing a color calibration model for each smartphone, we expedited clinical measurements without losing colorimetric accuracy by introducing a simple image normalization on a white standard. To conclude, the calibrated teledermoscopy system is fast and accurate enough for various colorimetric applications in veterinary dermatology.
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- Blaž Cugmas
- Biophotonics Laboratory, Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy, University of Latvia, 19 Rainis Blvd., LV-1586 Rīga, Latvia
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- Vetamplify SIA, Veterinary Services, 57/59–32 Krišjāņa Valdemāra Str., LV-1010 Rīga, Latvia;
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