@misc{10481/66833,
year = {2020},
month = {12},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/66833},
abstract = {The main goal of this work is the study of the skin wound healing efficacy of an antioxidant
cocktail consisting of vitamins A, D, E and the endogenous pineal hormone melatonin (MLT), with
all of these loaded into a thermosensitive hydrogel delivery system. The resulting formulation
was characterized by scanning electron microscopy. The antioxidant efficacy and microbiological
activity against Gram positive and Gram negative strains were also assayed. The skin healing
efficacy was tested using an in vivo model which included histological evaluation. Furthermore,
atomic force microscopy was employed to evaluate the wound healing efficacy of rat skin burns
through the determination of its elasticity at the nanoscale using force spectroscopy analysis. The
resulting hydrogel exhibited sol state at low temperature and turned into a gel at 30   0.2  C. The
hydrogel containing the antioxidant cocktail showed higher scavenging activity than the hydrogel
containing vitamins or MLT, separately. The formulation showed optimal antimicrobial activity. It
was comparable to a commercial reference. It was also evidenced that the hydrogel containing the
antioxidant cocktail exhibited the strongest healing process in the skin burns of rats, similar to the
assayed commercial reference containing silver sulfadiazine. Histological studies confirmed the
observed results. Finally, atomic force microscopy demonstrated a similar distribution of Young’s
modulus values between burned skin treated with the commercial reference and burned skin treated
with hydrogel containing the antioxidant cocktail, and all these with healthy skin. The use of an
antioxidant cocktail of vitamins and MLT might be a promising treatment for skin wounds for future
clinical studies.},
publisher = {Mdpi},
keywords = {Vitamins},
keywords = {Melatonin},
keywords = {Antioxidants},
keywords = {Skin},
keywords = {Healing},
keywords = {ATF microscopy},
title = {Endogenous Antioxidant Cocktail Loaded Hydrogel for Topical Wound Healing of Burns},
doi = {10.3390/pharmaceutics13010008},
author = {Soriano, José L. and Rodríguez Lagunas, María José and Clares Naveros, Beatriz},
}