ArticleBiomaterials2022
Murine macrophages or their secretome delivered in alginate dressings enhance impaired wound healing in diabetic mice.
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- Stem cell-derived secretome: a novel strategy for wound healing.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Recent advances and challenges in hydrogel-based delivery of immunomodulatory strategies for diabetic wound healing.Theranostics · 2026Review
- Immunomodulatory Mechanisms of Chronic Wound Healing: Translational and Clinical Relevance.MedComm · 2025Review
- Integrated machine learning analysis of proteomic and transcriptomic data identifies healing associated targets in diabetic wound repair.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Omics Techniques in Diabetic Wound Healing: Recent Insights into the Application of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing, Bulk RNA Sequencing, Spatial Transcriptomics, and Proteomics.Advances in therapy · 2025Review
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- Advancements in diabetic foot ulcer research: Focus on mesenchymal stem cells and their exosomes.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Macrophage and Neutrophil Dysfunction in Diabetic Wounds.Advances in wound care · 2024Review
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- Acellular embryoid body and hydroxybutyl chitosan composite hydrogels promote M2 macrophage polarization and accelerate diabetic cutaneous wound healing.Materials today. Bio · 2024Article
- Harnessing cytokine-induced killer cells to accelerate diabetic wound healing: an approach to regulating post-traumatic inflammation.Regenerative biomaterials · 2024Article
- Conductive Hydrogel Scaffolds for the 3D Localization and Orientation of Fibroblasts.Macromolecular bioscience · 2024Article
- Marine biomaterials in biomedical nano/micro-systems.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Diabetic foot ulceration is a devastating diabetic complication with unmet needs. We explored the efficacy of calcium-crosslinked alginate dressings in topically delivering primary macrophages and their secretome to diabetic wounds. The alginate bandages had a microporous structure that enabled even cell loading with prolonged cell survival and egress following wound placement. In vitro experiments showed that we could successfully differentiate and polarize primary murine bone marrow derived monocytes into M0, M1, M2a and M2c defined states with distinct gene expression, surface protein and secretome profiles. The primary macrophages were delivered in the bandages, migrated within the wounds and were still present for as long as 16 days post-injury. In wounds of db/db mice, treatment with all macrophage subtypes and their secretome, when compared to control, accelerated wound healing. Bulk RNA sequencing analysis and multiplex protein quantification of wound lysates revealed that M2c macrophages conditioned media had the most impact in wound healing affecting processes like neurogenesis, while M1 conditioned media promoted keratinization and epidermal differentiation. Collectively, our results indicate that alginate dressings can serve as a delivery platform for topical treatment of diabetic wounds and that conditioned media from distinctly polarized macrophages is equally or more effective than their parental cells in advancing wound healing and could therefore be a promising and technically advantageous alternative to cell therapy.
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