
pmid: 28714284
AbstractSutures penetrate tissues to close wounds. This process leads to inflammatory responses, prolongs healing time, and increases operation complexity. It becomes even worse when sutures are applied to stress‐sensitive and fragile tissues. By bonding tissues via forming covalent bonds, some medical adhesives are not convenient to be used by surgeons and have side effects to the tissues. Here egg albumen adhesive (EAA) is reported with ultrahigh adhesive strength to bond various types of materials and can be easily used without any chemical and physical modifications. Compared with several commercial medical glues, EAA exhibits stronger adhesive property on porcine skin, glass, polydimethylsiloxane. The EAA also shows exceptional underwater adhesive strength. Finally, wound closure using EAA on poly(caprolactone) nanofibrous sheet and general sutures is investigated and compared in a rat wound model. EAA also does not show strong long‐term inflammatory response, suggesting that EAA has potential as a medical glue, considering its abundant source, simple fabrication process, inherent nontoxicity, and low cost.
Petrolatum, Swine, Wound Closure Techniques, Egg Proteins, Surgical Wound, Adhesiveness, Water, Rats, Albumins, Tensile Strength, Materials Testing, Animals, Tissue Adhesives, Glass, Stress, Mechanical, Shear Strength, Skin
Petrolatum, Swine, Wound Closure Techniques, Egg Proteins, Surgical Wound, Adhesiveness, Water, Rats, Albumins, Tensile Strength, Materials Testing, Animals, Tissue Adhesives, Glass, Stress, Mechanical, Shear Strength, Skin
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