Microalgae as a Novel Therapy for Chronic Wound Healing - PubMed
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- Chronic wounds present a significant global health challenge due to persistent inflammation, infection, hypoxia, and impaired tissue regeneration.
- Traditional oxygen-based therapies like hyperbaric and topical oxygen treatments have limitations in efficacy, cost, accessibility, and sustained oxygen delivery.
- Microalgae offer a sustainable alternative for wound healing due to their biocompatibility, glucose consumption, and continuous oxygen production via photosynthesis.
- Innovative delivery platforms such as hydrogels, scaffolds, sutures, microneedles, and microrobots enhance wound healing by reducing hypoxia, infection, and inflammation.
- Advances in genetic engineering and 3D bioprinting further improve the therapeutic potential of microalgae-based systems.
- This review focuses on photosynthesis-driven oxygen delivery technologies for chronic wound healing.