Full Description
Wound Healing, Tissue Repair and Regeneration in Diabetes explores a wide range of topics related to wound healing, tissue repair and regeneration, putting a special focus on diabetes and obesity. The book addresses the molecular and cellular pathways involved in the process of wound repair and regeneration. Other sections explore a wide spectrum of nutritional supplements and novel therapeutic approaches, provide a comprehensive overview, present various types of clinical aspects related to diabetic wounds, including infection, neuropathy, and vasculopathy, provide an exhaustive review of various foods, minerals, supplements and phytochemicals that have been proven beneficial, and assess future directions.
This book is sure to be a welcome resource for nutritionists, practitioners, surgeons, nurses, wound researchers and other health professionals.
Contents
Part 1: Background and Overview
1. Concept and stages of wound healing
2. Pathophysiology of Diabetic ulcers
3. Wound infection and inflammation
4. The Angiogenic Response
5. Fetal Wound Healing
6. The Extracellular matrix: its formation and role in wound healing
7. Scarring and fibrosis
8. Role of cytokines and chemokines in wound healing
9. Dysregulated inflammation in diabetic wounds
10. Role of oxygen in diabetic wound healing
11. Epigenetics of diabetic wound healing
12. Tissue regeneration
13. Energetics and nutritional status of chronic and diabetic wounds
14. Epidemiology of Diabetic wounds
Part Two: Clinical Update and Therapeutic Standards
15. Wound management and its principles
16. Chronic wounds and its menaces
17. Surgical Debridement and NPWT
18. Clinical management of DFU
19. Diabetic neuropathy
20. Malignant wounds
Part Three: Therapeutic Interventions
21. Biomaterials used to treat diabetic wounds
22. Peptides to treat diabetic wounds
23. Nutraceutical interventions of wound healing and inflammation
24. Papaya: A natural remedy for diabetic wounds
25. Role of berries in wound healing
Part Four: Future Directions
26. MiRNA in diabetic wound healing
27. Electroceuticals: an emerging field in wound healing
28. Nano-electroporation and reprogramming