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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021

Current Trends in Advanced Alginate-Based Wound Dressings for Chronic Wounds.

Andreea Barbu, Bogdan Neamtu, Marius Zăhan, Gabriela Mariana Iancu, Ciprian Bacila, Vioara Mireșan

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
55citing papers in PubMed
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Recent Applications of Chitosan-Based Biomaterials as Wound Dressings.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  18. Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andreea BarbuPediatric Research Department, Pediatric Clinical Hospital Sibiu, 550166 Sibiu, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-1461-7397
Bogdan NeamtuPediatric Research Department, Pediatric Clinical Hospital Sibiu, 550166 Sibiu, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-2573-621X
Marius ZăhanFaculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Gabriela Mariana IancuFaculty of Medicine, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, 550169 Sibiu, Romania.
Ciprian BacilaFaculty of Medicine, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, 550169 Sibiu, Romania.
Vioara MireșanFaculty of Animal Science and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu · ROUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic wounds represent a major public health issue, with an extremely high cost worldwide. In healthy individuals, the wound healing process takes place in different stages: inflammation, cell proliferation (fibroblasts and keratinocytes of the dermis), and finally remodeling of the extracellular matrix (equilibrium between metalloproteinases and their inhibitors). In chronic wounds, the chronic inflammation favors exudate persistence and bacterial film has a special importance in the dynamics of chronic inflammation in wounds that do not heal. Recent advances in biopolymer-based materials for wound healing highlight the performance of specific alginate forms. An ideal wound dressing should be adherent to the wound surface and not to the wound bed, it should also be non-antigenic, biocompatible, semi-permeable, biodegradable, elastic but resistant, and cost-effective. It has to give protection against bacterial, infectious, mechanical, and thermal agents, to modulate the level of wound moisture, and to entrap and deliver drugs or other molecules This paper explores the roles of alginates in advanced wound-dressing forms with a particular emphasis on hydrogels, nanofibers networks, 3D-scaffolds or sponges entrapping fibroblasts, keratinocytes, or drugs to be released on the wound-bed. The latest research reports are presented and supported with in vitro and in vivo studies from the current literature.

Indexed as

alginatebiomaterialcommercially availabledressingfibershydrogelnanofiberswound carewound healing

Identifiers

PMID34575668
PMCPMC8471591
OpenAlexW3196322830

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