Microbial contamination along with over expressions of matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 impairs wound healing in diabetic patients. Silver-based antimicrobial agents have been successfully used for treating non-healing chronic wounds associated with infection. However, topical application of silver-ion compounds impairs wound healing process. Thus, usage of biogenic silver nanoparticles appears as a new means to reduce the toxicity of silver compounds in the wound care system. Here, following our previous method, AgNPs was synthesized using the culture filtrate of Brevibacillus brevis KN8(2) then characterized by UV-visible spectrophotometry, TEM, SAED, XRD and DLS measurements. The antibacterial activity of AgNPs was evaluated against the most common wound infecting pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus by well diffusion assay. Further, the wound healing efficacy of biogenic AgNPs was examined in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice by measuring wound area closure, histopathology, mRNA and protein expressions of MMP-2, MMP-9. Our results demonstrates that besides antimicrobial activity, biogenic AgNPs decreased the mRNA and protein expression of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in wounded granulation tissues leads to early wound healing in diabetic mice. These findings revealed that biogenic AgNPs synthesized from B. brevis KN8(2) could be an effective therapeutic agent in the management of diabetic foot ulcer with/without infection.
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