1. Nanocellulose in a given medical application
Short introduction to biomedical applications of nanocellulose and wound healing
Panu Kajander

2. Introduction
Natural polymers: alginate, chitosan, gelatin, collagen, elastin, starch and cellulose
Bacterial nanocellulose, BNC (or microbial cellulose, MC)
Low cost, biodegradability, biocompatibility, mechanical properties, availability, sustainability, and low cytotoxicity
Applications: Implants, drug delivery, wound healing, tissue engineering, antibacterial/antimicrobial activity, cardiovascular tissue replacement, cancer targeting, cornea replacement and biological detection.

3. Properties of ideal wound dressing (Czaja et al. 2007)

4. Gauze dressings Topical application in wound healing
Burns and chronic wounds
Increase in tissue generation, capillary formation and proliferation in wound area

5. Advantages Confortability to various body counters
Maintains proper water balance
Reduces wound pain
Faster tissue regeneration
Better healing effect
Lower inflammatory response

6. Main conclusions
BNC has morphological similarities with collagen  attractive for cell immobilization and cell support
Due to durability and compatibility, BNCs are suitable for tissue engineering
Outlook:
Surface functionalization with bioactive molecules (eg pharmaceuticals, growth factors ect.)
Interactions between biomaterial and living tissue can be tuned by the form (eg hydrogel, solid film..)
Numbers of publications in the period 2000–2013 on cellulose materials for biomedical applications. The topic keywords (SciFinder): cellulose, implants, tissue engineering, drug delivery, antibacterial/antimicrobial, cardiovascular, and wound healing.(Jorfi & Foster, 2014)

7. References
Mehdi Jorfi, E. Johan Foster Recent advances in nanocellulose for biomedical applications. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Vol 132, issue 14, pp DOI: /app
Lina Fu,ad Yue Zhang,a Chao Li,b Zhihong Wu,c Qi Zhuo,e Xia Huang,b Guixing Qiu,c Ping Zhou and Guang Yang Skin tissue repair materials from bacterial cellulose by a multilayer fermentation method. J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, DOI: /c2jm00134a
Czaja WK, Young DJ, Kawecki M, Brown RM Jr The future prospects of microbial cellulose in biomedical applications. Biomacromolecules Jan;8(1):1-12.