TY - JOUR
T1 - A Review on Curcumin-Loaded Electrospun Nanofibers and their Application in Modern Medicine
AU - Mitra, Souradeep
AU - Mateti, Tarun
AU - Ramakrishna, Seeram
AU - Laha, Anindita
N1 - Funding Information:
We want to acknowledge Manipal Institute of Technology and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, for their unconditional support rendered and for providing the required facilities for carrying out this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Herbal drugs are safe and show significantly fewer side effects than their synthetic counterparts. Curcumin (an active ingredient primarily found in turmeric) shows therapeutic properties, but its commercial use as a medication is unrealized, because of doubts about its potency. The literature reveals that electrospun nanofibers show simplicity, efficiency, cost, and reproducibility compared to other fabricating techniques. Forcespinning is a new technique that minimizes limitations and provides additional advantages to electrospinning. Polymer-based nanofibers—whose advantages lie in stability, solubility, and drug storage—overcome problems related to drug delivery, like instability and hydrophobicity. Curcumin-loaded polymer nanofibers show potency in healing diabetic wounds in vitro and in vivo. The release profiles, cell viability, and proliferation assays substantiate their efficacy in bone tissue repair and drug delivery against lung, breast, colorectal, squamous, glioma, and endometrial cancer cells. This review mainly discusses how polymer nanofibers interact with curcumin and its medical efficacy.
AB - Herbal drugs are safe and show significantly fewer side effects than their synthetic counterparts. Curcumin (an active ingredient primarily found in turmeric) shows therapeutic properties, but its commercial use as a medication is unrealized, because of doubts about its potency. The literature reveals that electrospun nanofibers show simplicity, efficiency, cost, and reproducibility compared to other fabricating techniques. Forcespinning is a new technique that minimizes limitations and provides additional advantages to electrospinning. Polymer-based nanofibers—whose advantages lie in stability, solubility, and drug storage—overcome problems related to drug delivery, like instability and hydrophobicity. Curcumin-loaded polymer nanofibers show potency in healing diabetic wounds in vitro and in vivo. The release profiles, cell viability, and proliferation assays substantiate their efficacy in bone tissue repair and drug delivery against lung, breast, colorectal, squamous, glioma, and endometrial cancer cells. This review mainly discusses how polymer nanofibers interact with curcumin and its medical efficacy.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11837-022-05180-9
DO - 10.1007/s11837-022-05180-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35228788
AN - SCOPUS:85125943974
SN - 1047-4838
VL - 74
SP - 3392
EP - 3407
JO - JOM
JF - JOM
IS - 9
ER -
