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Production of electrospun polyvinyl alcohol/microbial synthesized silver nanoparticles scaffold for the treatment of fungating wounds

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Fungating wounds usually develop in patients with advanced cancer, which responds poorly to treatments. Such wounds can be treated using suitable dressings. For this purpose, a recent research produced a new type of wound dressing with antibacterial and anticancer properties. The culture supernatant of Fusarium oxysporum was challenged with silver nitrate and heated for 5 min. Production of silver nanoparticles (SNPs) was confirmed using spectrophotometer, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. A solution of 10% (w/w) poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) and different volumes of SNP solutions were provided, where each solution was separately used for electrospinning. The obtained PVA/SNPs film evaluated under morphological characterization using field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) and its antibacterial and anticancer activities were measured. Results confirmed the presence of SNPs in the reaction mixture with sizes less than 50 nm, spherical and oval in shapes. FE-SEM results confirmed that SNPs were seen inside and entrapped between PVA in the PVA/SNPs membrane, composed of 50% of each material. This film had acceptable antibacterial properties against four different bacterial strains and a good anticancer activity against the human melanoma cell line (COLO 792) in contrast to the control one. A recent research introduced a new and fast biological method for the synthesis of SNPs, having acceptable antibacterial and anticancer activities. Further studies are needed to support the obtained results.

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  1. Department of Medical Sciences, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

    Behrooz Yahyaei, Bijan Fahimi & Parastoo Pourali

  2. Department of Engineering, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

    Sahebali Manafi

  3. Biotechnology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Sepideh Arabzadeh

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Yahyaei, B., Manafi, S., Fahimi, B. et al. Production of electrospun polyvinyl alcohol/microbial synthesized silver nanoparticles scaffold for the treatment of fungating wounds. Appl Nanosci 8, 417–426 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-018-0711-2

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