Experimental burn models for evaluating wound healing agents and its current situation and existing disadvantages: a literature review

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BACKGROUND: Burns remain a crucial part of the structure of injuries in Russia and abroad. Therefore, providing high-quality medical care to burn victims is relevant. Despite the large number of proposed solutions to this condition, developments in the field of tissue engineering and medical materials science still lack standardization and consideration of specific features of animal burn models for their testing. Many studies showed minor and major disadvantages from a technical and descriptive point of view.

AIM: To analyze and identify the main disadvantages of existing burn models to assess the effect of wound healing agents.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This article examines the search results in the databases Google Scholar and PubMed using the keywords “burns,” “rats,” “animal model,” and “wound healing.” Sixty publications were analyzed.

RESULTS: Seven quality criteria for the animal burn model have been determined, which allow obtaining reliable results and reproducing the described experiment: indication of the terms of quarantine and conditions of keeping laboratory animals, detailed description of the technique of applying burn injury, presence of one burn on a laboratory animal, presence of a control biopsy, indication of the absolute value of the initial burn area, presence of surgical treatment of burn wounds, and correct use of formulas for the planimetric assessment of wound healing.

CONCLUSIONS: A solution to the problem of creating a standardized model may be a more detailed description of techniques and following the proposed quality criteria.

About the authors

Yury A. Novosad

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: novosad.yur@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6150-374X
SPIN-code: 3001-1467

PhD student

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Aleksandr Yu. Makarov

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: makarov.alexandr97@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1546-8517
SPIN-code: 1039-1096

MD

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Kristina N. Rodionova

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Author for correspondence.
Email: rkn0306@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6187-2097
SPIN-code: 4627-3979
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Anton S. Shabunin

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: anton-shab@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8883-0580
SPIN-code: 1260-5644
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Sergei V. Vissarionov

H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

Email: vissarionovs@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4235-5048
SPIN-code: 7125-4930

MD, PhD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), Professor, Corresponding Member of RAS

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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