Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc.

Johnson & Johnson Patient Care, Inc.

Wilson Nashed

David F Ring

Thurman Dow

Robert J Gander

David T Rovee

Liquid loaded pads useful as wound and burn dressings are prepared from pellicles of microbially-produced cellulose obtained, for example, by culturing Acetobacter xylinum. A pellicle having a thickness from about 0.1 to 15 millimeters or greater is processed to replace the culture medium with water or other physiologically compatible liquid. The liquid-loaded pellicle is sterilized prior to its use as a dressing or in other medical applications.

Liquid loaded pad for medical applications

Laminar polysaccharide structures, e.g., laminar microbial cellulose structures, are disclosed. These structures comprise densified planiform sheets or laminae that merge into one another and together define plural regions having reduced polysaccharide microfibril density. The disclosed laminar polysaccharide structures are derived by manipulating fibrous polysaccharide pellicles produced by microorganisms such as those of the genere Acetobacter, Rhizobium, Agrobacterium, Pseudomonas, Sphaerotilus, and the like.

Microbial polysaccharide articles and methods of production

Treatment of inflammation by applying topically a selected acylaminophenol in a pharmaceutically acceptable topical vehicle.

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North Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Wilson Nashed