Combining of silk fibroin and Aloe vera gel to fabricate wound dressings

Currently silk fibroin is used more and in the biomedical researches, including a potential research direction creating wound dressing. Aloe vera gel has been as traditional herbal with many properties suitable for treatment of burns such anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, especially improvable healing. Therefore, prepared fibroin/ film (FAV) was an ideal material dressings. In this study, sericin removed from to obtain fiber. purchased Traditional Medicine Institute, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam. Fibroin fiber are dissolved by formic acid adding calcium chloride (CaCl2). Created FAV then evaluated some characteristics surface structure, tensile strength, absorbency, dehydration rate, biodegradation ability, preventing bacteria ability cytotoxicity test. The results showed that possessed good mechanical properties, water vapor transmission effective prevention bacterial penetration non-cytotoxic. This study first step foundation orientation development commercial