Nanoparticulate systems for wound healing

Abstract

Wounds impose a significant health and financial burden on patients, and many approaches have been attempted to seek effective wound healing systems. One of the commonly researched areas is the use of nanoparticles for wound healing, in which nanoparticles are loaded with several therapeutic molecules, or themselves exhibit wound healing properties without drug loading. Therefore, the aim of this chapter is to highlight the most commonly used nanoparticles in this regard, with emphasis on lipid-based systems (vesicular, emulsions, and solid matrix based) as representatives of organic nanoparticles and gold nanoparticles, silver nanoparticles, and metal oxide nanoparticles as representatives of inorganic nanoparticles.