WOUND HEALING: CURRENT UNDERSTANDING AND FUTURE PROSPECT

AJAY KUMAR SHARMA¹, VIGHNESH SUNDER², M.H. YASHAVARDDHAN³, SANDEEP KUMAR SHUKLA⁴*
¹Division of Radioprotective Drug Development Research, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Delhi, 110 054, India
²School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751 024, India
³Division of Radioprotective Drug Development Research, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Delhi, 110 054, India
⁴Division of Radioprotective Drug Development Research, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Delhi, 110 054, India
* Corresponding Author : sandeepshukla@inmas.drdo.in

Received : 16-08-2017     Accepted : 26-08-2017     Published : 30-08-2017
Volume : 8     Issue : 1       Pages : 240 - 246
Int J Drug Discov 8.1 (2017):240-246

Keywords : Wound healing, Pharmacological intervention, Inflammation, Epithelization
Academic Editor : Dr Arpana Vibhuti
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : The authors are thankful to Director, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Delhi, India, for providing all necessary facility and support in writing this review
Author Contribution : AKS and VS have contributed equally in drafting and revision. MHY critically reviewed and edited the manuscript. SKS participated in discussion and supervision of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Wound casualties are encountered very often in various situations including combat scenario. All these wounds need to be healed rapidly and efficiently to bring back the injured individual to an optimum level of fitness so that he can get back to his normal work schedule. So far, many strategies have been developed across the globe. But there is a no infallible solution available that can overcome the various complexities in wound healing and its management. Hence, there is a need to develop suitable technologies that could solve wound related complexities. An ideal intervention for wound care must involve components that act the different steps in the process of natural wound healing. An ideal intervention should possess blood-clotting, anti-microbial, growth promoting and analgesic properties. The present review briefly discusses the current understanding and future prospect of wound healing.

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