Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections
Bone infection is a disease that seriously affects patients’ quality of life and physical health. Traditional treatment methods have many drawbacks. Hydrogels loaded with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an emerging treatment strategy, combine the advantages of good biocompatibility of hydroge...
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| description | Bone infection is a disease that seriously affects patients’ quality of life and physical health. Traditional treatment methods have many drawbacks. Hydrogels loaded with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an emerging treatment strategy, combine the advantages of good biocompatibility of hydrogels, adjustable drug release performance, and multi-target synergistic treatment of TCM, showing great application potential. This article elaborates in detail on the research progress of hydrogels loaded with TCM for the treatment of bone infections, including the classification and characteristics of hydrogels, the mechanism of action of TCM in the treatment of bone infections, the preparation methods of hydrogels loaded with TCM, application examples, advantages, and the challenges and prospects faced. The aim is to provide new ideas and references for the clinical treatment of bone infections. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-67804166a90b4ea7ac89a82370f596c22025-08-20T03:13:51ZengMDPI AGPharmaceutics1999-49232025-04-0117451410.3390/pharmaceutics17040514Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone InfectionsXueyi Jin0Yujie Yue1Huaanzi Hu2Songwei Lv3School of Pharmacy, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, ChinaSchool of Pharmacy, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, ChinaSchool of Pharmacy, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, ChinaSchool of Pharmacy, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, ChinaBone infection is a disease that seriously affects patients’ quality of life and physical health. Traditional treatment methods have many drawbacks. Hydrogels loaded with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an emerging treatment strategy, combine the advantages of good biocompatibility of hydrogels, adjustable drug release performance, and multi-target synergistic treatment of TCM, showing great application potential. This article elaborates in detail on the research progress of hydrogels loaded with TCM for the treatment of bone infections, including the classification and characteristics of hydrogels, the mechanism of action of TCM in the treatment of bone infections, the preparation methods of hydrogels loaded with TCM, application examples, advantages, and the challenges and prospects faced. The aim is to provide new ideas and references for the clinical treatment of bone infections.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/17/4/514Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)hydrogelbone infectionbone regenerationdrug delivery |
| spellingShingle | Xueyi Jin Yujie Yue Huaanzi Hu Songwei Lv Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections Pharmaceutics Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hydrogel bone infection bone regeneration drug delivery |
| title | Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections |
| title_full | Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections |
| title_fullStr | Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections |
| title_full_unstemmed | Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections |
| title_short | Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections |
| title_sort | traditional chinese medicine loaded hydrogels an emerging strategy for the treatment of bone infections |
| topic | Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hydrogel bone infection bone regeneration drug delivery |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/17/4/514 |
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