MEDICAL ADHESIVE AND THE PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF
20220267655 · 2022-08-25
Inventors
Cpc classification
A61L26/0057
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61L24/0005
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61P17/02
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61K35/65
HUMAN NECESSITIES
International classification
Abstract
A medical adhesive and the preparation method, and application thereof. The medical adhesive is in the form of a gel, which contains a giant salamander skin mucus and an aqueous solution; the ratio parts by weight of the giant salamander skin dried powder and the aqueous solution is 1:1 to 1:6, and the weight content of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder in the medical adhesive ranges from 14.2% to 50%. The present invention also provides the preparation method for preparing the aforementioned medical adhesive, and at the same time, the aforementioned medical adhesive is applied for the wound.
Claims
1. A medical adhesive, comprising: a giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder; and an aqueous solution or an aqueous solvent, wherein the ratio parts by weight of the giant salamander skin freeze-dried powder and the aqueous solution an aqueous solvent is 1:1 to 1:6 or 1:2 to 1:6, and the aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent is selected from the group consisting of the physiological buffer solution, chlorhexidine, blood, plasma, blood cell preparation, platelet-rich plasma, platelet-rich plasma fibrin or any combination of the above.
2. The medical adhesive according to claim 1, wherein the medical adhesive is in gel form.
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5. The medical adhesive according to claim 1, wherein the physiological buffer solution is selected from the group consisting of normal saline, phosphate buffer, Tris buffer, citate buffer or any combination of the above.
6. The medical adhesive according to claim 2, wherein the medical adhesive has a porous structure.
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11. A use of the medical adhesive according to claim 1 as a dressing, the dressing is provided for adhering on a wound to promote the adhesion, repairing and healing the wound.
12. The dressing according to claim 11, wherein the wound includes wounds located in the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous connective tissue.
13. The dressing according to claim 11, wherein the wound includes wounds located in skeletal muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones and/or connective tissue around bones.
14. The dressing according to claim 11, wherein the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder and the aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent are directly provided for applying on the wound, so the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder and the aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent are formed as the medical adhesive on the wound.
15. The dressing according to claim 11, wherein a giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder and an aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent are preliminarily formed as a medical adhesive and the medical adhesive is then used to apply on the wound or to seal the wound.
16. A preparation method of medical adhesive according to claim 1, comprising: providing a giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder; sterilizing the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder; mixing a sterilized giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder and an aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent to carry out a gelation process to form the medical adhesive in a gel form, wherein the ratio parts by weight of the giant salamander skin freeze-dried powder and the aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent is 1:1 to 1:6 or 1:2 to 1:6, and the aqueous solution or the aqueous solvent is selected from the group consisting of the physiological buffer solution, chlorhexidine, blood, plasma, blood cell preparation, platelet-rich plasma, platelet-rich plasma fibrin or any combination of the above.
17. The preparation method of medical adhesive according to claim 16, wherein the step of providing the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder further comprising: obtaining the giant salamander skin mucus from a living giant salamander skin; freezing and drying the giant salamander skin mucus; and grinding and crushing the frozen and dried giant salamander skin mucus to form the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder.
18. The preparation method of medical adhesive according to claim 16, wherein the size of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is −20 mesh.
19. The preparation method of medical adhesive according to claim 16, wherein the size of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is between −60 mesh and +300 mesh.
20. The preparation method of medical adhesive according to claim 16, wherein the step of sterilization of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is achieved by using ethylene oxide.
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22. The preparation method of medical adhesive according to claim 16, wherein the physiological buffer solution is selected from the group consisting of normal saline, phosphate buffer, Tris buffer, citrate buffer or any combination of the above.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0054] Some sample embodiments of the invention will now be described in greater detail. Nevertheless, it should be recognized that the present invention can be practiced in a wide range of other embodiments besides those explicitly described, and the scope of the present invention is expressly not limited except as specified in the accompanying claims.
[0055] The giant salamander skin mucus of originally collected is in gel form, which is difficult to sterilize thoroughly, inconvenient to store and is also difficult to use in clinical. In order to solve the above problems, the technical solution of the present invention is to provide a giant salamander skin mucus dried powder, which is sterilized and then is mixed with the aqueous solution to form a medical adhesive. The medical adhesive contains the ratio parts by weight of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and aqueous solution is 1:1 to 1:6, that is, one part of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is matched one to six parts of aqueous solution or (in the following description, the ratio parts by weight of the giant salamander skin mucus and aqueous solution is referred to “powder-to-water ratio”). According to the above preparation, the weight percentage of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder in the medical adhesive ranges from 14.2% to 50%. The aqueous solution can be pure water or an aqueous solution containing biocompatible substance. In addition, the biocompatible substance mainly means that the aqueous solution prepared by adding biocompatible substance which is not to cause the active ingredients of the giant salamander skin mucus to be inactivated. Preferably, the aqueous solution is selected from the any one or more of the following: distilled water, deionized water, physiological saline (0.9% NaCl buffer), phosphate buffer (PBS), Tri buffer (TBS), citrate buffer, and chlorhexidine aqueous solution (preferably concentration is 2%) can be accepted for clinical. Moreover, the aqueous solution further includes human whole blood, and human blood extracts containing water, including plasma, serum, plasma, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), platelet-rich plasma fibrin (PRF). Base on the aspect of the present invention, blood or body fluid of human exuded from wounds can be used as the part of aqueous solution.
[0056] In addition to the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and the aqueous solution as essential component, in order to manufacture the product (medical adhesive) that are easy to store, transport, and clinical applications, there are no limitation on the use of other component or raw materials to manufacture the appropriate medical adhesive. Specifically, according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the recipe of medical adhesive of the present invention also contains the other recipes that can stop bleeding, reduce inflammation or promote tissue growth, and it is not to limit herein.
[0057] In the present invention, the weight ratio between the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and the aqueous solution, and the composition and the concentration for the aqueous solution are respectively designed, so that the medical adhesive has an ideal porous structure and good biocompatibility, and is suitable for adhesion of human body or other animal tissues, especially dense connective tissue, skin tissue, subcutaneous fat tissue, skeletal system or the adhesion between the aforementioned different types of tissues.
[0058] According to one of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the steps of preparation method of the medical adhesive includes: obtaining mucus from a giant salamander skin, sterilizing and drying the giant salamander skin mucus, grinding the giant salamander skin mucus after sterilized and dried, and sieving the giant salamander skin mucus to obtain the particle size of the giant salamander skin mucus dried is met requirement, and used as one of the conditions for quality assurance. Next, the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is sterilized and stored for later use.
[0059] The preferred technical solutions are described below based on the drawings. As shown in
[0060] The collecting method of mucus in foregoing step 1 should be carried out in accordance with China's animal protection law, which can avoid the permanent disability of giant salamander without killing the giant salamander. The suitable collecting method can be scratching or electrical stimulation. Or commercially farmed giant salamander can also be killed to collect the mucus. It is not to limit herein.
[0061] In foregoing step 2, the collected giant salamander skin mucus dried is pulverized by a ball mill at a low temperature and then ground into a fine powder. In order to obtain the powder with a specific particle size (that is, the particle size does not exceed a specific specification), the different meshes sieves can be used for sieving.
[0062] Due to the slight difference in the international standards for the number of sieving meshes, the present invention preferably adopts the Taylor standard sieve system commonly used in Republic of China to define the number of sieving meshes. The division is based on 200-mesh sieve size of 0.074 mm, the detailed calculation method is the conventional knowledge of the skilled in the art, and it is not to be repeated herein. However, when using above standard to describe the particle size of giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder, the negative/positive symbol indicates whether the powder is passed through the mesh, in which the negative symbol indicates the mesh that the powder can pass through. That is, the particle size of powder is obtained after sieving is smaller than the mesh size. The positive symbol indicates the powder cannot pass through the mesh, which means the particle size of powder is obtained after sieving is larger than the mesh size.
[0063] Among then, in order to obtain the better performance of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder, the particle size of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is −20 meshes, which means the size of sieve mesh is larger than 20 mesh (the actual particle size obtained through experiments is approximately less than 850 μm). According to a preferred embodiment, the particle size of the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is between −60 mesh and 300 mesh (the corresponding particle size is between 50-250 μm obtained through experiments.) in a specific practice, −20 meshes of powder particle size is obtained with a sieve with mesh larger than 20 meshes. Usually, the particle size of the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is not exceeding 850 μm can be obtained.
[0064] After the step 2 is finished, the powder is stored in a refrigerator below −20° C. for later use.
[0065] In foregoing step 3, the powder obtained in step 2 is sterilized and disinfected. This step is an important step in applying the product for clinical and is related to the performance of the clinical. According to the relevant regulations, unsterilized and uninfected giant salamander skin mucus-related products cannot be directly used in clinical practice. Moreover, the mucus secreted on the surface of the living giant salamander may contain viruses or germs that are potentially harmful to human body which is collected in foregoing step 1. The viruses or germs cannot be inactivated thoroughly in step 2. If it is applied to the wound directly, the wound infection would be increased. The main components of giant salamander skin mucus are active ingredients such as proteins, peptides, mucopolysaccharides and antibacterial peptides. The best sterilization method will neither destroy or change the structure of biological macromolecules, nor decrease the adhesion performance and biological activity of the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder. According to current technology, the disinfectant sterilization method for giant salamander skin mucus-related product includes low temperature, ultraviolet rays, cobalt radiation, and disinfectant sterilization method. Preferably, the sterilization and disinfection in step 3 of the present invention is ethylene oxide sterilization method.
[0066] In foregoing step 4, the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is mixed with the aqueous solution to form a gel, that is, the gel is the medical adhesive and the medical adhesive is in gel form. The aqueous solution includes but not limited to distilled water, deionized water and/or physiological buffer, such as physiological saline (NaCl buffer), phosphate buffer (PBS), Tris buffer (TBS), citrate buffer. The aqueous solution may also include 2% chlorhexidine, human whole blood, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), platelet-rich plasma fibrin (PRF), plasma and/or blood cell preparation, and above component can be used in combination as required.
[0067] According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further provides a use of the medical adhesive, specifically referring to the use in the adhesion, repair, and healing of wounds. Preferably, according to the performance of the medical adhesive of the present invention, especially suitable for the wound with dense connective tissue, specifically, the wounds includes but are not limited to the wound located in the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous connective tissue. It should be emphasized that the medical adhesive is more particularly able to comply with the requirement of the wound adhesion in the skeletal and muscular systems. Therefore, the wound surface includes but are not limited to the wound located in skeletal muscle, tendon, ligament, bone, and/or the connective tissue around skeletal muscle.
[0068] Based on the above use, and further according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, two methods are used as examples to illustrate the use of the medical adhesive, which includes but are not limited to.
[0069] Method 1: according to the hemorrhage and the body (especially human body) fluid exudate from the surface of the wound or wound, the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and appropriate aqueous solution are directly applied to the wound surface to form a gel to achieve a better wound adhesion effect. When using the aqueous solution, more preferred method is to estimate the volumes of hemorrhage and body fluid of the wound surface or wound together, apply the appropriate aqueous solution and select the appropriate powder-to-water ratio, so the wound adhesion effect can be maintained. If the volume of hemorrhage and body fluid exudate from the wound or wound surface and the applied giant salamander skin mucus dried powder can be smoothly formed as a gel to achieve the better wound adhesion effect, so it is not necessary to additionally apply the aqueous solution to the wound or wound surface.
[0070] Method 2, 1 part of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is mixed with 1-6 ratio parts by weight of aqueous solution form a gel of any shape, which can comply with the special shape requirement (such as cubic shape, surface area or thickness) to comply with the therapy requirement. For the wounds with larger hemorrhage or more tissue fluid exudation, an appropriate powder-to-water ratio is chosen to apply the gel to cover the wound to absorb the tissue fluid of the wounds to swell the gel, so the effect of the hemostasis, wet adhesion and the wound is maintained under drying condition.
[0071] The following examples illustrate the technical solution of the present invention and corresponding achieve effect.
Embodiment 1: Preparation of Medical Adhesive
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[0073] Step 3, a sterilization treatment is performed with ethylene oxide to the dried powder. The dried powder is packaged in a sterilization packaging bag with ethylene oxide, or the sterilization package bag with ethylene oxide is packaged into a container with an opening and stuff a cotton ball into the opening of the container. The sterilization package bag is put into the ethylene oxide sterilization container and is sterilized by ethylene oxide. The sterilization time and temperature are based on the principles which is not destroy the performance of dried powder, it is not to limit herein. Subsequently, the sterilized dried powder is then stood to volatilize the residual ethylene oxide in the freeze-dried powder. Final, seventh part of “GB/T 16886.7-2001, Biological evaluation of medical device” is referred: evaluation of residual amount of ethylene oxide sterilization to estimate the ethylene oxide residual” to inspect the ethylene oxide remained in the freeze-dried powder. After passing the inspection, the overall sterilization step is completed.
[0074] In addition, in order to illustrate the effect of using ethylene oxide in the present invention, there are several different sterilization methods to evaluate, the described as follows. First, for the evaluation of possible sterilization methods, the sterilization effect of low temperature and ultraviolet light is suspected to incomplete sterilization. The sterilization duration is long, and the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder has been sterilized under low temperature and ultraviolet light that is easy to hydrolysis and the expiration date is shorter. The Gamma-ray method involves more complicated operation due to the radiation, and it will reduce the adhesion performance of the related product of giant salamander skin mucus.
[0075] For the ethylene oxide sterilization method proposed in the present invention, it is preferable to refer to the National standard GB18279-2000 “Ethylene oxide sterilization confirmation and regular control of medical device” to perform the sterilization step: the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is crushed to package into ethylene oxide sterilization package bag, or put into a container with an opening, and then a cotton ball is stuffed to opening of the container. By using the ethylene oxide, the sterilization parameter is 100% ethylene oxide, temperature is at 54° C., the sterilization time for 60 minutes, and analysis for 15 hours. After sterilizing, seventh part of “GB/T 16886.7-2001″Biological evaluation of medical device” is referred: evaluation of residual amount of ethylene oxide sterilization to estimate the residual of ethylene oxide” to inspect the ethylene oxide remained in the freeze-dried powder, the residual amount of ethylene oxide in the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is smaller than 10 ppm. After qualifying the inspection, the entire sterilization steps are complete.
[0076] According to the clinical safety requirements, the comparison results of the sterilization performance of above ethylene oxide sterilization method and other sterilization methods are shown in
[0077] Unless otherwise specified, the dried powder (usually abbreviated or labeled as “S SAD”) used in the following examples are all obtained through above steps.
[0078] As foregoing step 4, the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder has passed the inspection which is mixed with the aqueous solution to form a gel-form medical adhesive. The ratio parts by weight of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and aqueous solution is 1:1 to 1:6, and the preferred ratio parts by weight is 1:2 to 1:6, that is, one part by weight of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder mixed with 2-6 parts by weight of aqueous solution. In the gel-form medical adhesive of the present invention, the preferred weight percentage of the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder ranges from 14.2% to 50%.
[0079] The design of weight ratio of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and the aqueous solution of the present invention is to give the special, practical and excellent gel performance. Specifically, when the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is mixed with aqueous solution, the polypeptide crosslinking network swells instead of dissolving. After mixing, the entangled protein network of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is changed to drive by hydrogen bonds, disulfide bonds, and π-π conjugated bonds to form gel (as shown in
[0080] Based on above characteristics of the medical adhesive of the present invention, in view of the fact that wound interface of human or animal is protein-rich extracellular, thus, it is necessary to select an appropriate powder-to-water ratio for preparing the gel, the synergistic effect between active substance, aqueous solution in the medical adhesive and the intercellular fluid in wound tissue to make the medical adhesive and the wound can form the best adhesion through the hydrogen bond and Van der Waals force.
[0081] According to above, the pure water or clinically acceptable aqueous solution can be selected for the aqueous solution, which can contain biocompatible substances. The selection of biocompatible substances will not cause the active recipes in the giant salamander skin mucus and does not affect the gelation. Therefore, except for the aqueous solution is artificially prepared, the blood or tissue fluid exuded from the wound surface or wound are also used as the aqueous solution to mix the foregoing aqueous solution to form aqueous solution.
[0082] In addition, because surgical wound surface and wound are usually located at the interface between the body surface and the outside, and at the same time, when the external temperature change and the constant temperature of human tissue at about 37° C. is faced, good performance is a requirement for hydrogel formation. Therefore, in one embodiment, the hydrogel formation of medical adhesive is evaluated at 4° C. or 37° C. 100 mg of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is mixed with 200 μL PBS (aqueous solution) to form a mixture, and then the mixture is poured into a mold to stand at 4° C. or 37° C. for more than 3 minutes, until the mixture is in gel form which used as medical adhesive. It can be shown from the experimental, the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and aqueous solution can quickly form a viscously gel.
Embodiment 2: Structural Analysis of Medical Adhesive
[0083] The medical adhesive provided by the present invention has porous structure therein after hydrogel formation, so the porous structure of the medical adhesive can exchange the nutrients in tissue fluid and the metabolites during clinical application.
[0084] The scanning electron microscope (Hitachi, S-3400N II, Japan) analyzes the porous structure of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder (SSAD powder) with different particle size that obtained in embodiment 1 of the present invention, and porous structure of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder shows the uniform block scanned by scanning electron microscope as shown in
[0085] According to the analysis of the scanning electron microscope, the average diameter of the porous structure of three-dimensional honeycomb structure decreased with the decrease of the particle size of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder. It has not been found that the powder-to-water ratio will affect the average diameter of porous structure, and there is not statistically significant for the correlation between the average diameter of porous structure and the powder-to-water ratio. The giant salamander skin mucus dried powder with a particle size of −14 mesh is hydrated to form a gel which has average diameter of porous is 116 microns (μm), the average diameter of porous for particle size of −60-mesh is 37 μm, and the average diameter of porous for the particle size of −300-mesh is 6 μm. In addition, as the increase of gelation time, the porous structure becomes more obvious, and the porous size becomes more uniform, in the porous structure after gelation for 12 hours, the sidewall density of cavity is increased (gelation time is 12 hours), which is larger than sidewall after gelation for 2 hours (gelation time is 2 hours). It shows that with the hydration time is increased, the structure of porous network tends to be stable. The result of analyzing the porous diameter of porous structure and the porous size is shown in
Embodiment 3: In Vitro Determination of the Tissue Adhesive Intensity of Medical Adhesive
[0086] The testing in this embodiment (embodiment 3) is in accordance with ASTM (American society for Testing and Materials), the commercially available medical adhesive cyanoacrylate and fibrin is used as blank control group to evaluate the adhesion effect. The improvement is made in response to different materials and operating environment which should be understandable and acceptable to above skilled in the art, and it will not be repeated herein.
[0087] In this embodiment, the laboratory shear test is performed with universal testing machine (MTS Criterion, Model 43, USA). The specific method is to use the pig skin as a tissue matrix, the pig skin is cut into 1×8 square-center meter rectangles. By using cyanoacrylate (Baiyun Medical Adhesive®, Guangzhou, China) (as labeled “commercial gel” in Figure), fibrin gel (FIBINGURAAS®, Shanghai, China) (as labeled “bio gel” in Figure), and the medial adhesive is made by giant salamander skin mucus dried powder (as labeled “SAAD treatment group, there are two adhesion methods: one is incision aligning adhesion (incision edge is faced to the incision edge), and the other is subcutaneous fat adhered to the subcutaneous fat, the practice and result are shown in
[0088] For SSAD treatment group, the specific testing method is to take 30 mg by weight of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder to apply on pig skin, and adds 60 μL-180 μL of PBS (ratio parts by weight is about 1:2 to 1:6) by using pipette to form medical adhesive. On the other hand, the bio gel group and commercial gel group of control experiment respectively used fibrin and cyanoacrylate to adhere pig skin in accordance with above two adhesion methods. After adhering for two hours, the performance of adhesion parts is tested on universal testing machine.
[0089] The lap shear testing is used to determine the shear intensity of materials of above three groups according to ASTM F2255-05 standard. For anti-shearing adhesion ability of incision alignment adhesion method (as shown in
[0090] In contrast, when the subcutaneous fat method is used to adhere to subcutaneous fat (as shown in
[0091] The bio gel adhesive not only has good adhesion abilities, but also has good elasticity and ductility. Therefore, except for the adhesion force, this example further performs elasticity and ductility for above material of three groups, the results are respectively shown in
[0092] The testing results show that cyanoacrylate adhesive provides rigid adhesion, while the medical adhesive of the present invention can provide a flexible adhesion to skin, which indicates the adhesion ability of medical adhesive of the present invention are more suitable for skin and tissue adhesive.
[0093] The above adhesion ability, anti-shearing, elasticity, and ductility abilities of testing pig skin is compared with two medical adhesives (cyanoacrylate synthetic gel and fibrin gel) which commonly use in clinical. The overall results show that the medical adhesive provided by the present invention exhibits superior adhesion ability on difference substrates.
[0094] In order to test the adhesion ability of medical adhesive of the present invention, this example utilizes universal testing machine (MTS Criterion, Model 43, USA) to perform laboratory shear testing. The specific method uses bone as the tissue matrix, a rabbit femur is taken to cut at the middle by using bone scissors, and the medical adhesive is made of giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder to perform adhesion contraposition for the cut rabbit femur. After adhering for 10 mins, the shear testing is performed to obtain the adhesion intensity is 38.5±11.2 KPa.
[0095] In vitro testing and comparison are carried out for the abilities (such as bacteriostatic effect, anti-oxidation effect, and cell migration effect) of medical adhesive of the present invention applied for wound surface or wound, and the following experiments are used to illustrate.
Experiment 1: Bacteriostatic Effect Experiment
[0096] The giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution used for aerobic bacteria experiment is prepared as following: 1 g by weight of sterile giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is taken, an appropriate amount of LB medium nutrient broth medium) is added to make the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder fully absorb the LB medium to swell. Then, the culture medium is continuously added until the amount of liquid culture medium reached 10 mL. Next, the liquid culture medium was placed in a refrigerator at 4° C. for 24 hours to complete the extraction procedure.
[0097] The giant salamander skin mucus extraction used for anaerobic bacteria experiment is prepared as following: 1 g by weight of sterile giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is taken, an appropriate amount of TSB medium (tryptone soy broth medium) is added to make the giant salamander skin mucus dried to absorb the TSB medium to swell. Then, culture medium is continuously added until the amount of liquid culture medium reached 10 mL. Next, the liquid culture medium was placed in a refrigerator at 4° C. for 24 hours to complete the extraction procedure.
[0098] The aerobic bacteria are Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The culture method is described as follows: the extraction solution is prepared for aerobic bacteria experiment. After extracting for 24 hours, the extraction solution is centrifuged at 3000 r/min for 3 minutes to obtain the final extraction solution (also called as giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution). Next, 10 mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution and 500 μL of bacterial solution are respectively added into 50 mL centrifuge tube. Next, after giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution and bacterial solution are mixed well in centrifuge tube, the centrifuge tube (contains giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution and bacterial solution therein) is put into incubator immediately.
[0099] Porphyromonas gingivalis is selected as anaerobic bacteria, and the culture method is described as follows: the extraction solution is prepared for the anaerobic bacteria experiment. After extracting for 24 hours, the extraction solution is centrifuged at 3000 r/min for 3 minutes to obtain the final extraction solution (also called as giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution). Next, 10 mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution and according to 5% concentration of sheep blood, 500 μL of sheep blood is added into each centrifuged tube with giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution. Next, 500 μL of bacterial solution with same contraction as sheep blood is then incubated and is mixed well. Then, the centrifuged tube (contains giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution, 500 μL, 5% concentration of sheep blood and bacterial solution) is immediately put into the anaerobic incubator.
[0100] The blank control group is prepared as follows. Aerobic bacteria: 10 mL of culture medium is added into centrifuge tube. The concentration of bacterial solution is to be incubated which is same as that of the experimental group as blank control group. Anaerobic bacteria: 10 mL of TSB cultural medium and 500 μL of sheep blood are respectively added into centrifuge tube. The bacterial solution is to be incubated which is same as the experimental group as blank control group.
[0101] The bacteria detection method is described as follows. The detection of Escherichia colt and Staphylococcus aureus: the absorbance is determined by microplate absorbance reader (EnSpire, PerkinElmer, Singapore). The operation method is that from 0th hour, every 2 hours, 100 μL of mixed well solution per well is drawn to add into 96-well plate, and three secondary wells are disposed. Under the condition OD (optical density) is 600, the absorbance of each group is to be determined. The data are shown in table 1 and table 2.
[0102] Detection of Porphyromonas gingivalis: the absorbance is determined by microplate absorbance reader. The operation method is that from day 0, 100 μL of mixed well solution per well is drawn to add into 96-well plate, and five secondary wells are disposed. Under the condition OD is 600, the absorbance of each group is to be determined. The data are shown in Table 3.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Comparison of antibacterial effects of Escherichia Coli Experimental material Sampling Giant salamander skin mucus Blank control duration extraction solution group 0 h 0 0 2 h 0.018 ± 0.013 0.031 ± 0.002 4 h 0.016 ± 0.005 0.052 ± 0.016 6 h 0.014 ± 0.007 0.073 ± 0.004 8 h 0.013 ± 0.006 0.108 ± 0.007 10 h 0.036 ± 0.003 0.145 ± 0.005 12 h 0.048 ± 0.003 0.164 ± 0.008 14 h 0.078 ± 0.007 0.181 ± 0.001 16 h 0.092 ± 0.007 0.209 ± 0.002 18 h 0.121 ± 0.004 0.221 ± 0.002 20 h 0.148 ± 0.006 0.232 ± 0.003
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Comparison of antibacterial effects of Staphylococcus Aureus Experimental material Sampling Giant salamander skin mucus Blank control duration extraction solution group 0 h 0 0 2 h 0.003 ± 0.002 0.068 ± 0.002 4 h 0.006 ± 0.004 0.084 ± 0.004 6 h 0.005 ± 0.003 0.105 ± 0.002 8 h 0.019 ± 0.004 0.186 ± 0.010 10 h 0.043 ± 0.002 0.196 ± 0.004 12 h 0.050 ± 0.004 0.207 ± 0.002 14 h 0.079 ± 0.003 0.221 ± 0.003 16 h 0.093 ± 0.003 0.243 ± 0.003 18 h 0.109 ± 0.002 0.253 ± 0.002 20 h 0.109 ± 0.001 0.274 ± 0.022
TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Comparison of antibacterial effects of Porphyromonas gingivalis Experimental material Sampling Giant salamander skin mucus Blank control duration extraction solution group 0 day 0 0 1 day 0.073 ± 0.015 0.107 ± 0.008 2 day 0.142 ± 0.042 0.176 ± 0.017 3 day 0.181 ± 0.057 0.212 ± 0.016 4 day 0.241 ± 0.005 0.275 ± 0.042 5 day 0.264 ± 0.053 0.361 ± 0.013
[0103] The above experiments prove that the giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution has obvious inhibitory effect on two common aerobic bacteria (E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus), the anti-bacterial time can reach 16 hours. The giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution has significant inhibitory effect on Porphyromonas gingivalis (anaerobic bacteria), and the antibacterial time can reach more 5 days.
Experiment 2: Antioxidant Experiment
[0104] First, the giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution is prepared. The method is described as follows: 200 mL of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is added into 2 ml of deionized water (weight ratio is about 1:10) for 7 days to make the soluble substance of giant salamander dried powder dissolved thoroughly. The supernatant is extracted from the extraction solution of giant salamander skin mucus. In addition, 1 mg/mL of DPPH ethanol solution is prepared on site.
[0105] The experiment group utilizes lmL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution and 1 mL of DPPH ethanol solution. The blank control group utilizes 1 mL of pure water and lmL of DPPH ethanol solution. Next, the spectrophotometer is calibrated to zero with ethanol, and the wavelength of experimental group and blank control group are measured at a wavelength of 517 nm at 0.5 hours, 1 hour, and 2 hours respectively. The absorbance value of blank control group indicates A.sub.1 and the absorbance value of experimental group indicates A.sub.2. The calculation formula of free radical scavenging rate is formula (I), and the measurement of absorbance for blank control group and experimental group are shown in Table 4.
Free radical scavenging rate=100×(A.sub.1−A.sub.2)÷A.sub.1 (formula (1))
TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 calculation table of Free radical scavenging rate Free radical blank control experimental scavenging group (A.sub.1) group (A.sub.2) rate 0.5 h absorbance value 0.461 0.106 77% 1 h absorbance value 0.451 0.099 78% 2 h absorbance value 0.441 0.082 81.4%
[0106] This experiment shows that the giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution can scavenge most of free radicals in DPPH solution, and the giant salamander skin mucus extraction solution has antioxidation ability.
Experiment 3: Cell Migration Experiment
[0107] In order to simulate the wound healing process in vitro, the cell scratch experiment and transwell chamber experiment are carried out.
[0108] For above two experiments, the fully medium is first prepared: 88 parts of DMEM, 10 parts of fetal bovine serum, 1 part of penicillin and 1 part of streptomycin are taken and are mixed to obtain the fully medium. Next, according to the ratio of 1 mg of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder to 1 mL of fully medium, the giant salamander skin mucus freeze-dried powder is soaked in the fully medium for 7 days to fully dissolve the soluble substance in giant salamander skin mucus to obtain the concentration of 1 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium. Further, 5 different concentration ratio of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium is prepared, the concentrations are 0.5 mg/mL, 0.1 mg/mL, 0.05 mg/mL, 0.01 mg/mL, and 0.005 mg/mL respectively.
[0109] In the cell scratch experiment, HUVES and L929 cells are performed for testing. The cell preparation process is: HUVES (umbilical vein endothelial cells) and L929 (fibroblasts) in the logarithmic growth phase are taken, trypsin digestion to obtain a single cell suspension, the cell count of 6×10.sup.5 cell/mL. 1 mL of cell suspension is inoculated into 6-well plate and 1 mL of fully medium is added and cultured in an incubator at 37° C. After the wall is overgrowth with 6-well plate, 200 μL of yellow pipette tip to make scratch (scratch in horizontal and vertical to make the scratch “+” for observing). The scratch “+” is then washed with PBS for 2-3 times to remove the floating cells. Finally, 2 mL of 5 different giant salamander skin mucus extraction mediums are added into 5 well, and fully medium without giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium is added into one well which used as blank control group. All the experimental samples are cultured in 37° C. incubator and is observed and photographed under 0 hour and 24 hours respectively, in which the experimental results of 0.1 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium as represented, as shown in
[0110] By using Image-J software to calculate and analyze the area of collected pictures, the results is shown in
[0111] Then, the transwell chamber experiment was carried out to further prove 5 different concentration of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium effect on the migration of HUVES and L929 cells in vitro to reflect the role in promoting skin and mucus membrane regeneration.
[0112] HUVES and L929 cells are respectively performed for testing, and the cell preparation process is: HUVES and L929 in logarithmic growth phase are taken, and trypsin digestion to obtain a single cell suspension, 2×10.sup.5 cell/mL of the cell count HUVES and 3×10.sup.5 cell/mL of cell count L929. The transwell chamber is placed in 24-well plate, and then 100 μL of cell suspension is inoculated into the upper chamber of transwell, and 800 μL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium respectively added into lower chamber to incubate in 37° C. incubator for 24 hours. After incubating for 24 hours, the chamber is taken out of the incubator, the fixed liquid of upper chamber is soaked, and the chamber is pre-moved to the well of 800 μL of methanol. The chamber is taken out of incubator after temperature of incubator is kept in 30 mins, the liquid of upper chamber is blot and the chamber is moved to 24-well plate where pre-added with 800 μL and concentration is 0.1% of crystal violet stain solution, stain at room temperature for 15-30 minutes. After staining, the PBS is soaked several times to remove the excess stain solution. Finally, the liquid in upper chamber is soaked, the cell on the surface of the membrane at bottom of upper chamber is removed by cotton swab. After chamber membrane is dried, the membrane is tore-out by tweezers and is placed on the microslide and is covered by cover glass to observe under 200× microscope, he results as shown in
TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 5 transwell chamber experimental results medium blank control 0.5 0.1 0.05 0.01 cell group mg/mL mg/mL mg/mL mg/mL HUVES 77 ± 6 145 ± 15 227 ± 18 72 ± 6 72 ± 5 L929 108 ± 8 109 ± 13 223 ± 7 152 ± 12 127 ± 11
[0113] The experiment results prove that different concentration of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium have different effects on the migration rate of two kinds of cells, in which, for HUEVS, it has statistically significant in difference between 0.5 mg/mL, 0.1 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium and blank control group; for L929, it also has statistically significant in different between 0.1 mg/mL, 0.05 mg/mL, and 0.01 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium and blank control group, in which 0.1 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium has the most significant promotion effect on two kinds of cells. The experimental results show that different concentration of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium have different effects on migration rate of two kinds of cells, and the promotion effect of 0.1 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus is particularly significant.
[0114] The in vitro cell experiment results show that the cell compatibility of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium is better, it no obvious toxicity for cell, and 0.1 mg/mL of giant salamander skin mucus extraction medium can significantly accelerate the migration of HUVES and L929.
Experiment 4: Evaluation and Effect of Medical Adhesive on Tissue Adhesion of Wound of Living Body
[0115] It should be noted that the animals used in the experiment of the present invention are all purchased from the experimental animal center of ChongQing Medical University. All animal studies are conducted in accordance with NIH guidelines on the care and use of laboratory animals (NIH Publication No. 85-23 Rev. 1985) and are approved by Animal Care and Use Committee of the School of Dentistry Chongqing Medical University (CQHS-REC-2018-01).
[0116] For evaluation of in vivo wound adhesion and biocompatibility, 30 male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rates (6-8 weeks old rats, the weight is 200 g±20 g) are used in experiment. SD rats are anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbital (30 mg/kg). After shaving the back hair, the SD rats is disinfected with iodine and ethanol. The back of SD rats is cut to 4 incisions and each incisions is 2 cm, and the treatment utilizes 4-0 non-absorbable sutures is used to suture the wound, the medical adhesive (SSAD) of the present invention, cyanoacrylate (commercial gel), fibrin gel (bio gel) or hemostasis (blank control group).
[0117] For SSAD treatment group, 5 mg of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder applied to the incision, and then 15 μL-20 μL of PBS applied to incision, and wound edges are pressed each other to contact for about 30 seconds, so the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder interacted with PBS to enable the adhesion effect. The results show that cyanoacrylate used in commercial gel group has rigid adhesion properties compared to medical adhesive used in SSAD treatment group, and the medical adhesive has the flexibility as same as normal skin. In addition, although fibrin gel in bio gel group also has a certain flexibility, but the low adhesion effect to cause the dehiscence of adhering incision during moving, the adhesion ability of bio gel group is still inferior to that of the medical adhesive.
[0118] All wounds are taken a picture and observed to understand the healing procedure and monitor the changes in wound healing condition (as shown in
[0119] To evaluate side effect of rat skin tissue which may cause by the wound healing effect and medical adhesive of the present invention, the rats are sacrificed after operation for 5 days. the skin sample (3×3 cm) is collected for hematoxylin and eosin staining analysis (H&E; G1120, Solarbio, China), to perform a histological studies, the results as shown in
[0120] The groups other than S SAD treatment group, there are some irregulate collagen fibers, neutrophils and fibroblasts at the suture wound tissue, and there are less hair regeneration, it is worth noting that compared with SSAD treatment group, there are no cells in the sutured incision site in other groups, while the SSAD treatment group is full of new cells of stained with nuclear blue. In commercial gel group, the incision is treated with cyanoacrylate, it can be obviously to look out the vacuole wraparound the bottom of incision, and nuclear blue stained cell can be seen obviously in the cell area of substrate. The incision of bio gel group obviously showed the ulcer surface and the undegraded fibrin gel is residue at the bottom. The hemostatic treatment is only performed in the blank control group, the incision is filled with a large amount of granulation tissue, and a certain number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, fibroblasts and blood capillaries cab be seen in the wound region.
[0121] The cyanoacrylate in the commercial gel group has the highest adhesion performance in vivo and in vitro, even higher than the intensity of natural skin tissue. However, the adhesion performance of cyanoacrylate to fat is weak, the adhesion interface is more rigid, and the cytotoxicity is not to be ignored. The fibrin gel in bio gel group has similar properties to soft tissue, but the adhesion performance is low and cannot be used alone. As for the effect of SSAD treatment group, the recovery of treated incision is better than that of the normal sutured incision, and there is no wound infection or inflammation obviously and has the effect of promoting cell regeneration.
Experiment 5: Evaluation of Effect of Medical Adhesive on Wound Healing In Vivo
[0122] This experiment is applied for full-thickness skin defect to evaluate the healing ability of medical adhesive applied to wound in diabetic SD rats. According to the method described in paper (Biomaterials science. 2018;6: 2757-72), after the diabetic rats are constructed successfully, the diabetic rats are anesthetized with 1% sodium pentobarbital (intraperitoneal injection), and the hair of the back of diabetic rats are scraped. By using a disposable biopsy needle to make full-thickness circular wound with a diameter 10 mm on the back skin of diabetic rats. In wound treatments, the blank control group utilizes the gauze to cover the wound (fully-thickness circular wound with a diameter 10 mm); SSAD treatment group calculates the amount of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder according to 30 mg/cm.sup.2 defect area, and the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is spread over the wound surface, and the animal is kept in a static state for more than 2 minutes, so that the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder absorbs the blood of the wound (that is, the function of an aqueous solution) to form a gel which is a medical adhesive to cover the wound. After operation for 0, 3, 7, 14, and 21 days, the wound sealing rate is to be analyzed; after operation 21 days, the wound is performed with tissue section analysis which includes STR (skin thickness ratio), average normal skin thickness and skin appendages (such as hair follicles, sebaceous glands, sweat glands) for statistical analysis.
[0123] The wound healing ratio is calculated by using Image J software (National Institute of Health) according to the following formula (Formula (II)):
[0124] S.sub.initial indicates the initial wound size, S.sub.current indicates the current wound size. Each condition must be tested at least three times.
[0125] The skin thickness ratio (STR) is calculated by using Image J software according to formula (III):
[0126] T.sub.scar indicates average skin thickness of scar tissue, T.sub.Normal indicates average normal skin thickness. Each condition must be tested at least three times.
[0127] In order to evaluate efficiency of medical adhesive applied on wound in vivo, by using a disposable biopsy puncture machine to make 1 cm of a round full-thickness skin wound on the back of rats. The SSAD treatment group utilizes the medical adhesive as prepared in experimental 1 and the amount of medical adhesive of experimental 1 is calculated according to 100 mg/cm.sup.2 defect areas. The negative control group is covered by gauze and did not use any adhesive. According to the time interval of 0, 3, 7, 14, 21 days after operation, wound is photographed to observe the healing situation. The overall results are shown in
[0128] As shown in
[0129] In order to ensure the effect of operation of medical adhesive on epidermal regeneration and connective tissue contraction, H&E staining (as shown in
[0130] In order to determine the new shape of blood vessels at wound region, the angiogenesis-related CD31 and α-SMA is analyzed, the results as shown in
Experiment 6: Evaluation and Effect of Medical Adhesive In Vivo
[0131] Under deep general anesthesia with isoflurane, SD rats were in the prone position and an aseptic surgery is prepared for back of SD rats. A skin incision (3 cm) outside the spinal axis is separated from the underlying subcutaneous tissue to provide enough space for implantation of medical adhesive. 100 mg of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is taken and is mixed with 200 μl-600 μl of PBS to form a medical adhesive. The, the medical adhesive is implanted into space of subcutaneous and is sutured the skin closely after implantation. The surrounding tissue and all-skin of wound are collected at 3, 7, and 14 days after operation to perform histological analysis to evaluate the degradation effect of medical adhesive. The degradation effect is shown in
[0132] After medical adhesive is implanted in the body for 3, 7 and 14 days, H&E and Masson staining showed mild inflammation (as shown in
[0133] By using lymphocytes (CD3) and macrophages (CD68) marks to stain, evaluate the cell characteristics of wound healing area, and the results are shown in
[0134] By using liquid chromatography technology to detect the content of main substance of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder, the detection result finds that more than 87% of them are various amino acids.
TABLE-US-00006 TABLE 6 content of main substance of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder content content Sort amino acid (mg/kg) percentage (%) 1 Lysine 84718.11 ± 705.005 8.47 2 Threonine 71375.08 ± 714.28 7.14 3 Glutamate 69488.71 ± 1151.98 6.95 4 Glycine 68308.8 ± 594.745 6.83 5 Aspartic acid 62547.98 ± 674.25 6.25 6 Leucine 61047.84 ± 453.635 6.1 7 Proline 59855.79 ± 493.31 5.99 8 Isoleucine 59898.02 ± 417.785 5.99 9 tyrosine 55928.19 ± 4420.91 5.59 10 Valine 53311.17 ± 1022.665 5.33 11 Serine 52322.74 ± 99.4 5.23 12 phenylalanine 50825.46 ± 340.375 5.08 13 alanine 41874.33 ± 328.675 4.19 14 arginine 38365.15 ± 389.165 3.84 15 histidine 17974.12 ± 178.975 1.8 16 methionine 14394.41 ± 129.13 1.44 17 Tryptophan 9372.815 ± 5.325 0.94 18 cystine 1680.24 ± 71 0.17
Experiment 7: Evaluation and Effect of Different Aqueous Solution
[0135] The giant salamander skin mucus is obtained by electric stimulation, the dried powder is pulverized to sterilize with ethylene oxide. After standing for 48 hours to obtain the giant salamander skin mucus dried powder. The aqueous solution utilizes physiological saline (NaCl buffer), phosphate buffer (PBS), Tris buffer (TBS), citrate buffer, 2% chlorhexidine, blood, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP), platelet-rich plasma fibrin (PRF) or concentrated growth factor (CGF). The medical adhesive is prepared according to the method is described in experimental 1. The ratio parts by weight of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder and aqueous solution is shown in Table 7.
TABLE-US-00007 TABLE 7 ratio parts by weight of giant salamander skin dried powder and aqueous solution types of aqueous parts types of aqueous parts solution (by weight) solution (weight) physiological saline 1-3 platelet-rich plasma 4-6- (NaCl buffer) (PRP) phosphate buffer 1-3 platelet-rich plasma 3-5 (PBS) fibrin (PRF) Tris buffer (TBS) 3-6 Injectable platelet-rich 3-5 plasma fibrin (iPRF) citrate buffer 2-5 whole blood of human 2-4- 2% chlorhexidine 2-4 Whole blood and 2-4- physiological saline (mixing ratio are 1:1) Note: the amount of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder used in this table is 1 part by weight
[0136] The multiple cases of SD rats are treated with medical adhesive which is made of different aqueous solution according to different powder-to-water ratio. The treatment method is that the wound is covered by medical adhesive, in which the medical adhesive can cover and adhere the wound to exhibit the good adhesion ability. After 35 days, the rat heart, liver, spleen lung and kidney are taken for histological analysis to evaluate the biocompatibility of the medical adhesive. The blood sample is collected for blood biochemical analysis, which includes lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to evaluate the influence of medical adhesive for physiological value. During the treatment and subsequent observation (After injury for 35 days), there is no effect to observe on the overall health or behavior of the SD rats. In addition, H&E staining did not reveal any systemic damage to the histological examination of the heart, liver, spleen, ling, and kidney. Moreover, the toxic effects of kidney (blood urea nitrogen) and liver (aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase) and general treatment group are evaluated. After topical administration of the medical gel, these parameters are within the normal reference value range compared with the blank control group, which indicates that there is no damage to the major organs after treatment of medical gel.
Experiment 8: Evaluation and Effect of Biocompatibility of Medical Adhesive In Vivo
[0137] The present invention utilizes a plurality of aqueous solution and medical adhesive with different powder-to-water ratios to treat multiple case of SD rats. The treatment method is that the appropriate medical adhesive is used to suture the subcutaneous of SD rats. After operation for 35 days, the rat heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney are taken for histological analysis to evaluate the biocompatibility of the medical adhesive. The blood samples are collected for blood biochemical analysis, which includes lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to evaluate the influence of medical adhesive for physiological value. The medical adhesive can adhere to the skin incision to promote wound healing in diabetic models. However, the assessment of long-term toxicity in vivo is critical for biological applications. During the treatment and subsequent observation (after injury for 35 days), there is no effect to observe on the overall health or behavior of the SD rats. In addition, H&E staining did not reveal any systemic damage to the histological examination of the heart, liver, spleen, ling, and kidney. Moreover, the toxic effects of kidney (blood urea nitrogen) and liver (aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase) and general treatment group are evaluated. After topical administration of the medical gel, these parameters are within the normal reference value range compared with the blank control group, which indicates that there is no damage to the major organs after treatment of medical gel.
Experiment 9: Evaluation of the Therapeutic Effect of Medical Adhesive on Tendons
[0138] The SD rats are used as experimental animals, and normal group use normal rats without any operation; SSAD treatment group is treated with the medical adhesive of the present invention after the Achilles tendon of SD rats are cut; the blank control group is treated with PBS (phosphate buffered saline solution) after the Achilles tendon of SD rats have been cut, thereby let the Achilles tendon of SD rats heal naturally. The specific method is to select 20 3-month-old SPF order male SD rats (which is provided by the Experimental Animal Center of Chongqing Medical University) and weight of each SD rats is 280±30 g. Adaptive feeding for 7 days, the operation of tendon dissection is performed according to the established rats Achilles tendon defect model (as shown in
[0139] The SD rats are randomly divided into SSAD treatment group and blank control group, each with 10 SD rats, and the Achilles tendon of each 10 SD rats are cut according to above surgical method. The SSAD treatment group is treated with the medical adhesive obtained in experimental 1: 10 mg of giant salamander skin mucus dried powder is taken to apply on the stump of Achilles tendon (as shown in
[0140] After the operation, all animals are free to take water and food (standard feed), and are fed in a clean environment with a room temperature of 25° C.-28° C. and a humidity of 75%-80%. After operation for 28.sup.th day, the action of each SD rats is to analyzed by using small animal gait instrument, some samples are taken for mechanical testing (n=6), and the rest of Achilles tendon of SD rats are fixed, and then the paraffin section HE and Masson staining are performed.
[0141] Compare the tendon strength of SSAD treatment group and blank control group, the mechanical testing method is carried out according to the following method. First, the complete tendon tissue is separated and use two scalpel blades to cut away the surrounding original muscle tissue at a safe distance of 5 mm above and below the tendon tissue while retaining all the tendon tissue. Both two ends of 5 mm of muscle are fixed on universal testing machine (MTS Criterion, Model 43, USA). The parameter used in mechanical testing is 15 mm/min. When the maximum force that new Achilles tendon tissue can bear is reached, the tendon is broken, the universal testing machine records the curve of force and displacement. The maximum broken intensity (the unit represented as N/m.sup.2) is calculated according to the maximum tensile force and the cross-sectional area of the new Achilles tendon tissue measured in advance, and Young's modulus can be calculated according to the slope of curve.
[0142] The mechanical testing showed that the maximum load tension of the tendon in SSAD treatment group (25.6N±8.2N) is significantly higher than that in blank control group (13.8±3.9N) (P<0.05) after treatment for 21 days. At the same time, cross-sectional area (10.5±4.7 mm.sup.2) of tendon in SSAD treatment group is smaller than that in blank control group (16.1±5.8 mm.sup.2). The tenon intensity in SSAD treatment group (2.8±1.1 MPa) is higher than that in blank control group (0.9±0.2 MPa) (P<0.05). The stiffness of tendon in SSAD treatment group (17.7±7.5N/mm) is higher than that in blank control group (6.9±1.2N/mm) (P<0.05). The elastic modulus of SSAD treatment group (14.6±6.9 MPa) is higher than that of blank control group (3.0±0.6 MPa).
[0143] After treatment for 28 days, the maximum load tension (52.8N±9.8N) of the tendon in SSAD treatment group is higher than that in blank control group (33.3±8.3N) (P<0.05). At the same time, the cross-sectional area (7.7±1.1 mm.sup.2) of tendon in SSAD treatment group is smaller than that in blank control group (9.3±1.6 mm.sup.2). The tendon intensity (7.1±1.9 MPa) of SSAD treatment group is higher than that of blank control group (3.6±0.9 MPa) (P<0.05). The stiffness of tendon of SSAD treatment group is higher than that of blank control group (15.3±3.0N/mm) (P<0.05). The elastic modulus (36.3±11.2 MPa) SSAD treatment group is higher than that of blank control group (15.0±3.5 MPa) (P<0.05).
[0144] The maximum lad tension of normal tendon is 42.3±2.9N, the intensity is 14.0±5.8 MPa, the stiffness is 29.8±7.3N/mm and the elastic modulus is 44.4±12.9 MPa.
[0145] The maximum load tension of tendon in SSAD treatment group is even high than that of normal group, but the area of SSAD treatment group is larger than that of normal group (7.7±1.1 mm.sup.2 vs. 3.5±1.2 mm.sup.2). The tendon intensity (14.0±5.8 MPa) of normal group is still much higher than that of SSAD treatment group (7.1±1.9 MPa), which indicates that the tendon quality of normal group is higher than that of SSAD treatment group. The reason why the tendon load of SSAD treatment group is even exceeded that of the tendon of normal group should be due to early tendon healing accompanied by hyperplasia. It shows that the medical adhesive of the present invention can improve the strength of the healed Achilles tendon and reduce the risk of re-broken of tendon.
[0146] Compare the running state of SSAD treatment group, blank control group and normal group, the animal models of SSAD treatment group and blank control group show normal left hind legs and surgery on the right hind legs. The left and right legs of normal group are not to perform operating. A rodent gait instrument (Catwalk XT gait analysis system, Nordas, the Netherlands) is used to evaluate the action ability of the SD rats after the operation, and the software built-in machine is used to export the detection data, and statistical analysis is performed by SPSS statistics 25 software (IBM, Armonk, N.Y., USA). The data are expressed as average±standard deviation. Two independent samples t-tests to calculate whether there is statistical difference.
[0147] The footprint area, maximum contact area, the duty ratio, the proportion of the maximum intensity, the maximum intensity of the maximum contact area, average intensity of maximum contact area, maximum intensity, average intensity, and the average intensity of top 15 largest sole pressures are measured respectively. On 21 days, 10 rats are measured in the blank control group and 10 rats are measured in SSAD treatment group. On 28 days, 4 rats are measured in blank control group, 5 rats are measured in SSAD treatment group and gait data of 4 normal rats are measured at the same time. The data are expressed as mean±standard deviation. According to existing literature reports and comparison with the rats in normal group, the healing performance is good of Achilles tendon is that except for the increase in the proportion of reaching maximum intensity, the other index is all smaller.
[0148] After the operation for 21 days, the footprint area (1.68±0.55 cm.sup.2) of rats in SSAD treatment group is smaller than that of blank control group (2.15±0.33 cm.sup.2) (P<0.05). The duty ratio (the time for foot touching the ground/walking period) (71.7±3.8%) of rats in SSAD treatment group is lower than that in blank control group (77.1±4.8%) (P<0.05) (as shown in
[0149] After the operation for 28 day, the indicators of statistical difference between SSAD treatment group and blank control group includes maximum contact area (0.8±0.1cm.sup.2 vs. 1.3±0.3 cm.sup.2) (as shown in
TABLE-US-00008 TABLE 8 Results of gait instrument 21 day blank 21 day SSAD 28 days blank 28 days SSAD index control group treatment group P control group treatment group P footprint area 2.1 ± 0.33 1.7 ± 0.55 0.036 1.8 ± 0.4 1.2 ± 0.2 0.026 maximum 1.6 ± 0.2 1.3 ± 0.4 0.113 1.3 ± 0.3 0.8 ± 0.2 0.018 contact area duty ratio 77.1 ± 4.8 71.7 ± 3.8 0.016 68.5 ± 5.1 67.2 ± 5.2 0.771 time duty of 47.7 ± 13.9 63.8 ± 12.7 0.016 49.7 ± 19.2 68.4 ± 13.6 0.190 maximum intensity maximum 199.3 ± 9.7 176.3 ± 32.3 0.065 192 ± 10.7 154.9 ± 21.0 0.034 intensity of maximum contact area average 103.0 ± 6.5 90.6 ± 13.1 0.016 80.0 ± 8.4 67.5 ± 2.7 0.030 intensities of maximum contact area maximum 205.2 ± 8.1 186.0 ± 25.0 0.050 200.3 ± 7.0 173.3 ± 16.8 0.041 intensity average 109.7 ± 6.9 96.8 ± 13.9 0.026 86.8 ± 10.8 72.7 ± 4.2 0.053 intensity top 15 average 196.2 ± 13.2 168.8 ± 32.4 0.036 182.1 ± 17.8 146.2 ± 13.6 0.023 intensities of maximum sole pressure intensity
[0150] After the operation for 28 day, HE sections of the right hind leg of two rats in experiment group and blank control group respectively are taken for staining. It is found that the blank control group includes fewer collagen fiber, no orientation, and the fat cells infiltration can be found obviously. The collagen fibers of SSAD treatment group (as shown in
[0151] From above descriptions, the present invention provides a medical adhesive prepared by unmodified giant salamander skin mucus and its use. It can be applied to tissue adhesion on wound through varieties usage methods to promote the wound healing, and the comprehensive performance is better than the current medical adhesive.
[0152] During the use of medical adhesive, the gel can quickly (time is less than 60 seconds) seal the opening of wound of bleeding on the back of the rat, so the full-thickness skin defect of diabetic SD rats can be treated effectively. In addition, the medical adhesive can be thoroughly degraded in the body within 2 weeks and medical adhesive has low inflammatory foreign substance reaction. Therefore, the medical adhesive of the present invention has the advantages of convenient operation, easy modification, good biocompatibility, as well as the comprehensive effects of promoting tissue regeneration, promotion of wound healing, anti-oxidation and antibacterial. It provides a practical seamless selection for skin, dense connective tissue, fragile organs and inaccessible internal tissue wound. In addition, the low cost of giant salamander skin mucus is to be considered and the environmentally friendly processing steps, it is expected that the medical adhesive proposed in the present invention can be used as an elastic and malleable medical adhesive product to overcome the defects and limitations of the current products, and is widely used.
[0153] The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of rights of the present invention. At the same time, the above descriptions should be understood and implemented by those skilled in the relevant technical fields, so the others do not deviate from what is disclosed in the present invention. All equivalent changes or modifications made in the spirit should be included in the scope of the patent application.