From Plants to Wound Dressing and Transdermal Delivery of Bioactive Compounds

Transdermal delivery devices and wound dressing materials are constantly improved upgraded with the aim of enhancing their beneficial effects, biocompatibility, biodegradability, cost effectiveness. Therefore, researchers in field have shown an increasing interest using natural compounds as constituents for such systems. Plants, important source so-called “natural products” enormous variety structural diversity that still exceeds capacity present-day sciences to define or even discover them, been part medicine since ancient times. However, benefits just at beginning being fully exploited modern dermal transdermal Thus, plant-based primary compounds, without biological activity, contained gums mucilages, traditionally used gelling texturing agents food industry, now explored valuable cost-effective components biomedical field. Their non-toxicity compensate local availability compositional variations. Also, secondary metabolites, classified based on chemical structure, intensively investigated wide pharmacological toxicological effects. impact is highlighted detail through most recent reported studies. Innovative isolation purification techniques, new drug systems, advanced evaluation procedures presented.