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Research Highlights
1. Accelerated porcine wound healing after treatment with α-gal nanoparticles
α-Gal nanoparticle treatment of wounds accelerates macrophage recruitment, angiogenesis, and wound healing in pigs producing the anti-Gal antibody. As humans produce high titers of anti-Gal antibodies, this treatment may exhibit a similar beneficial effect in the clinical setting.
2. Antigen-Mediated, Macrophage-Stimulated, Accelerated Wound Healing Using α-Gal Nanoparticles
Application of α-gal-containing nanoparticles to wounds stimulated a transiently increased inflammatory response, accelerating the rate of wound healing. Use of α-gal may be a simple and effective way to stimulate the wound healing response in both normal and pathologic wound beds.
3. Rapid Recruitment and Activation of Macrophages by Anti-Gal/α-Gal Liposome Interaction Accelerates Wound Healing
The study suggests that α-gal liposome and α-gal nanoparticle treatment may enhance wound healing in the clinic because of the presence of high complement activity and high anti-Gal Ab titers in humans.
4. Topical α-Gal Nanoparticles Enhance Wound Healing in Radiated Skin
Topical application of AGNs onto irradiated wounds significantly ameliorates the delayed wound healing classically seen in radiated skin and results in faster wound closure with only transient application.
5. Topical α-gal nanoparticles accelerate diabetic wound healing
Using α-gal nanoparticles as a topical wound healing adjunct is a simple, safe and effective means of augmenting dysregulated macrophage recruitment present in the diabetic state.
It is suggested that recruitment of stem-cells following anti-Gal/α-gal nanoparticles interaction in injured tissues may result in induction of localized regeneration facilitated by conducive microenvironments generated by pro-reparative macrophage secretions and "cues" provided by the extracellular matrix in the injury site.
Wound and burn healing may be accelerated by the use of a-gal nanoparticles, which harness the immunologic potential of the natural anti-Gal antibody, the most abundant antibody in humans constituting 1% of immunoglobulins.