Microbial cellulose--the natural power to heal wounds.

By Wojciech K Czaja, A. Krystynowicz, S. Bielecki, R. Brown. Biomaterials, 2006

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Rehabilitation

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In Biomaterials

1. T. Heinze
2. A. Dufresne
3. L. Avérous
4. Orlando J. Rojas
5. Susheel Kalia
6. B. Cherian
7. B. Kaith
8. J. Njuguna

In Rehabilitation

1. Z. Cai
2. Orlando J. Rojas
3. Dušan Goranovič
4. P. Raspor
5. Jaehwan Kim

Citations in the corpus

• Bacterial Cellulose Production and its Industrial Applications (2014, neutral): “DBC exhibited lower value of the loose density than those of DKF and Avicel PH 101 [70-74].”
• Cellulose Nanofibrils: From Strong Materials to Bioactive Surfaces (2013, background): “BC is an interesting material for using as a wound dressing since it can control wound exudates and can provide moist environment to a wound resulting in better wound healing [124].”
• Recent advances in bacterial cellulose (2014, background): “family offered by the company has been marketed in the US since 2003 (Czaja et al. 2006).”
• Green composites: A review of material attributes and complementary applications (2014, background): “Cellulose has been studied in a range of biomedical applications [65–69].”
• Potassium sorbate release from poly(vinyl alcohol)-bacterial cellulose films (2012, background): “It can be obtained by microbial fermentation using Acetobacter xylinum, a Gram-negative bacterium, which has the ability to synthesise a large amount of high-quality cellulose organised as twisting ribbons of micro-fibrous bundles (Czaja et al., 2006).”
• A Review on Kombucha Tea-Microbiology, Composition, Fermentation, Beneficial Effects, Toxicity, and Tea Fungus. (2014, background): “16 g/L) acids in a product obtained after kombucha cultivation on black tea sweetened with glucose (0.062% to 1.51%). Yang and others (2010) also determined the presence of gluconic acid and 2-keto gluconic acid, after cultivation of Gluconacetobacter sp.”
• Cellulose-Based Bio- and Nanocomposites: A Review (2011, background): “Nanocellulose having suitable porosity which gives the mat an infection barrier, loss of fluids, painkiller effect, allows medicines to be easily applied and it also absorbs the purulent fluids during all inflammatory stages, expelling it later on in a controlled and painless manner [214].”
• Biotechnological Applications of Acetic Acid Bacteria (2008, methodology): “The cellulose produced in the form of a gelatinous membrane can be molded into any shape and size during its synthesis, depending on the production technique and conditions used (Bielecki et al., 2002; Czaja et al., 2006).”
• Cellulose: Structure and Properties (2015, background): “Independently, a Brazilian company, BioFill Produtos Biotecnologicos (Curitiba, PR Brazil), created a new wound healing system based on BC [1, 44, 45].”