Medical biomaerials
Tsubouchi (1999a) developed a silk fibroin-based wound dressing the could accelerate healing and could be peeled off without damaging the newly formed skin. The non-crystalline fibroin film of the wound dressing had a water content of 3-16% and a thickness of 10-100 um. Subsequently, the wound dressing was made with a mixture of both fibroin and sericin (Tsubouchi,1999b).