Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39315217›Full record

ArticleHeliyon2024

A low-cost, antimicrobial aloe-alginate hydrogel film containing Australian First Nations remedy 'lemon myrtle oil' (

Dinuki M Seneviratne, Brooke Raphael, Eliza J Whiteside, Louisa C E Windus, Kate Kauter, John D W Dearnaley, Pratheep K Annamalai, Raelene Ward, Pingan Song, Paulomi Polly Burey

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Dinuki M SeneviratneSchool of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Brooke RaphaelSchool of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Eliza J WhitesideSchool of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Louisa C E WindusSchool of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Kate KauterSchool of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
John D W DearnaleySchool of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Pratheep K AnnamalaiCentre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Raelene WardCentre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Pingan SongCentre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Paulomi Polly BureyCentre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic wounds pose a global public health challenge, particularly in remote settings where access to specialised wound care and dressings can be limited and cost-prohibitive. First Nations communities in Australia are at a significantly higher risk for developing chronic wounds and this risk further increases for people living in remote regions. There is an urgent need to develop inexpensive but effective wound dressings to improve wound outcomes. Over the past decade, sodium alginate (SA)-based hydrogel polymers have emerged as a cost-effective and biocompatible component in wound dressings, and many have been successfully commercialised. In this study, we have developed and evaluated various prototypes of SA-based hydrogels with the addition of another low-cost component, aloe vera (AV) to further tailor the physicochemical properties of the hydrogel. Since the presence of microbes is a major contributor to the pathophysiology of chronic wounds, we also evaluated the antimicrobial activity of lemon myrtle oil (LMO) (

Indexed as

Antimicrobial activityBiocompatibilityHydrogel dressingsLemon myrtle oilPhysicochemical propertiesSodium alginateWound healing

Identifiers

PMID39315217
PMCPMC11417235

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.