Metal‐based nanomaterials in biomedical applications: antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity aspects

P Makvandi, C Wang, EN Zare… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial colonization on material surfaces is ubiquitous. Biofilms derived from surface‐
colonized microbes pose serious problems to the society from both an economical …

Mechanisms of antifungal properties of metal nanoparticles

YN Slavin, H Bach - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Highlights What are the main findings? Mechanisms by which nanoparticles exert their
damage on fungi were described. Transcriptomic studies regarding exposure to …

Baker's yeast-mediated silver nanoparticles: Characterisation and antimicrobial biogenic tool for suppressing pathogenic microbes

SS Salem - BioNanoScience, 2022 - Springer
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were biosynthesised in the current work using cells extract
from yeast strain (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a clean and good for the environment …

[HTML][HTML] Using inorganic nanoparticles to fight fungal infections in the antimicrobial resistant era

T Huang, X Li, M Maier, NM O'Brien-Simpson… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Fungal infections pose a serious threat to human health and livelihoods. The number and
variety of clinically approved antifungal drugs is very limited, and the emergence and rapid …

Mechanistic Understanding of Candida albicans Biofilm Formation and Approaches for Its Inhibition

T Atriwal, K Azeem, FM Husain, A Hussain… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the demand for novel antifungal therapies has increased several-folds due
to its potential to treat severe biofilm-associated infections. Biofilms are made by the sessile …

Zinc oxide nanoparticle as a novel class of antifungal agents: current advances and future perspectives

Q Sun, J Li, T Le - Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Certain types of nanoparticles, especially zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs), are widely
reported to be capable of the inhibition of harmful bacteria, yeasts, and filamentous fungi …

Silver nanoparticles in aquatic environments: Physiochemical behavior and antimicrobial mechanisms

C Zhang, Z Hu, B Deng - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanosilver (silver nanoparticles or AgNPs) has unique physiochemical properties and
strong antimicrobial activities. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the …

Toxicity of silver nanoparticles in biological systems: does the complexity of biological systems matter?

R Vazquez-Muñoz, B Borrego, K Juárez-Moreno… - Toxicology letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Currently, nanomaterials are more frequently in our daily life, specifically in biomedicine,
electronics, food, textiles and catalysis just to name a few. Although nanomaterials provide …

Green biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using novel endophytic Rothia endophytica: Characterization and anticandidal activity

MA Elbahnasawy, AM Shehabeldine… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology has the ability to improve human health with novel tools for the treatment of
diseases. In this study, Rothia endophytica is a novel endophytic bacterial strain isolated …

Heparanase-driven sequential released nanoparticles for ferroptosis and tumor microenvironment modulations synergism in breast cancer therapy

J Zhang, J Yang, T Zuo, S Ma, N Xokrat, Z Hu, Z Wang… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
The normal chemotherapy only induces the intracellular apoptosis pathway to promote
primary tumor cells death, while not inhibit tumor metastasis. Herein, we proposed a kind of …