Development of Specific Dosage Form: Wound Dressing, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 1075
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Interests: biomaterials (collagen drug delivery systems); rheology; cosmeceuticals; drug systems formulation and technological processes optimization; response surface methodology; Taguchi design
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Interests: wound dressings; scaffolds; collagen; antimicrobial activity; cartilage repair; biomaterials
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Interests: quality by design (QbD); analytical quality by design (AQbD); drug systems formulation (Chitosan); Surfaces characteristics (wettability/hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity—pharmaceutical powders)
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Interests: targeted drug delivery; nanoparticulate systems; solubility enhancement techniques; biotechnology; topical/transdermal drug delivery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From ancient times up until today, despite the comprehensive research and development of various wound care strategies, the wound healing process still represents a massive challenge for the medical and pharmaceutical fields. Wound management is a complex procedure that involves various factors playing crucial roles in the healing mechanism. Even if cutaneous lesions are caused by diseases, trauma, surgery, chemical, thermal, or electrical factors, they can happen at any time throughout a person’s life, affecting their quality of life to a lesser or greater extent. Globally, the incidence of skin lesions is continuously increasing from year to year, and, currently, it is estimated that there are more than 8 million people who are affected by different skin injuries, with or without infections. Wound care total cost estimation varies from 28 billion USD to 97 billion USD, diabetic ulcers and surgical lesions being the most expensive to cure.
Wound healing is a highly particular dynamic, various multi-phase process involving multiple cellular and molecular mechanisms for tissue repair. Some wounds’ complexity and healing complications appeal to new approaches for their management. Therefore, no single treatment is sufficient to finalize wound healing. To surmount these limitations, a highly explored therapeutic strategy is to develop different innovative wound dressings, designed on various biomaterials, from natural and synthetic biopolymers to their combinations, applied in different forms, ranging from hydrogels, hydrocolloids, films, sponges, foams, to scaffolds and textiles improved with natural compounds, plant extracts, drugs, or nanoparticles. The synergy of biocompatibility and cellular proliferative actions of these wound dressing compounds is expressed in the acceleration of the healing process, enhancing structural, functional, and cosmetic properties of the novel grown tissue.
This Special Issue has the main objective of presenting the most recent research regarding the new original tailored wound dressings, enriched with a myriad of natural and synthetic compounds as potential therapeutic and delivery systems for the treatment and management of various cutaneous lesions.
Prof. Dr. Mihaela Violeta Ghica
Dr. Madalina Georgiana Albu Kaya
Prof. Dr. Lacramioara Popa
Prof. Dr. Cristina Elena Dinu-Pirvu
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Keywords
- skin lesion
- wound healing
- wound dressing
- regenerative medicine
- biomaterials
- smart biopolymers
- therapeutic system
- controlled delivery system
- scaffolds
- biocompatibility
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