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Developing a tissue glue by engineering the adhesive and hemostatic properties of metal oxide nanoparticles

Overview of attention for article published in Nanoscale, January 2017
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Title
Developing a tissue glue by engineering the adhesive and hemostatic properties of metal oxide nanoparticles
Published in
Nanoscale, January 2017
DOI 10.1039/c7nr01176h
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Authors

Martin T. Matter, Fabian Starsich, Marco Galli, Markus Hilber, Andrea A. Schlegel, Sergio Bertazzo, Sotiris E. Pratsinis, Inge K. Herrmann

Abstract

Despite decades of research, wound complications remain a major cause of postoperative mortality, especially in the face of multiple comorbidities. Addressing the issue of anastomotic leakages and impaired wound healing from a new angle is of great interest with the prospect of having direct impact on patient outcome. Recently, aqueous suspensions of silica and iron oxide nanoparticles have been employed to connect biological tissue by serving as an adhesive layer eventually leading to macroscopic gluing of tissue. In this work, we explore the prospects of this effect by introducing bioactive tissue adhesives composed of nanoparticles produced via scalable and sterile flame spray pyrolysis. We investigate six different metal oxides on cytocompatibility, hemostatic activity and adhesive properties in a small intestine lap joint model. While bioglass nanoparticles show exceptionally strong procoagulant and adhesive properties, the cell membrane integrity is impaired at high particle concentrations. Interestingly, when bioglass is combined with ceria, a material that has well-documented cytoprotective effects, the resulting hybrid particles exhibit the same beneficiary effects as bioglass while featuring superior cytocompatibility. Taken together, we demonstrate highly modular synthesis of nanoparticles expressing adhesive properties in conjunction with tailored bioactivity. Such bioactive nanoparticles as adhesion nuclei in wound healing have a wide range of potential applications in surgical wound care and regenerative medicine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 20%
Student > Master 11 16%
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Postgraduate 6 9%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 14 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Materials Science 12 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 17%
Chemistry 7 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Chemical Engineering 5 7%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 17 24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 June 2018.
All research outputs
#1,011,298
of 22,979,862 outputs
Outputs from Nanoscale
#168
of 9,331 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,352
of 421,122 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nanoscale
#25
of 684 outputs
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