Antioxidant and antimicrobial wound dressing materials

Abstract

A wound dressing material may include a polymeric substrate, a silver salt, and a dyestuff to photostabilize the silver salt. The substrate may include collagen and/or oxidized regenerated cellulose complexed to Ag+, and the dyestuff may, for example, be an aniline or acridine dye. Also disclosed are methods of making such materials, and wound dressings that include such materials.

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