DELIVERY MEANS

摘要

A delivery means for delivering a deliverable material to a wound bed comprises a hydrogel (preferably an optionally cross-linked polyvinylalcohol) and a deliverable material comprising: (i) a decomposable material which in the absence of said hydrogel decomposes and/or is permanently denatured if sterilised using heat, electron beam radiation or gamma radiation; (ii) a protein, protein fragment, peptide or amino acid; or (iii) a secretion or excretion from the organism Lucilia sericata or Drosophila melanogaster.