Diverse antibacterial treatments beyond antibiotics for diabetic foot ulcer therapy

X Li, X Jing, Z Yu, Y Huang - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), a common complication of diabetes, has become a great burden
to both patients and the society. The delayed wound closure of ulcer sites resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] Replacing dietary sodium selenite with biogenic selenium nanoparticles improves the growth performance and gut health of early-weaned piglets

L Qiao, X Dou, X Song, J Chang, X Zeng, L Zhu, H Yi… - Animal Nutrition, 2023 - Elsevier
Selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) are proposed as a safer and more effective selenium
delivery system than sodium selenite (Na 2 SeO 3). Here, we investigated the effects of …

Antagonist Impact of Selenium-Based Nanoparticles Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Parveen, T Sur, S Sarkar, R Roy - Applied biochemistry and …, 2023 - Springer
One of the cardinal causes of global deaths from a single-point infectious agent has been
reported to be tuberculosis (or TB). At present times, the incidence of TB cases occurs mostly …

LUMO-mediated Se and HOMO-mediated Te nanozymes for selective redox biocatalysis

K Liu, J Niu, L Liu, F Tian, H Nie, X Liu, K Chen… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te) nanomaterials with novel chain-like structures have
attracted widespread interest owing to their intriguing properties. Unfortunately, the still …

[HTML][HTML] Selenium-enriched Bifidobacterium longum DD98 attenuates irinotecan-induced intestinal and hepatic toxicity in vitro and in vivo

H Zhu, C Lu, F Gao, Z Qian, Y Yin, S Kan… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Irinotecan (CPT-11) is a camptothecin chemotherapy drug largely used in treating
cancers. However, its strong adverse effects, such as gastrointestinal and hepatic toxicities …

[HTML][HTML] Biogenic selenium nanoparticles and selenium/chitosan-Nanoconjugate biosynthesized by Streptomyces parvulus MAR4 with antimicrobial and anticancer …

MG Hassan, MT Hawwa, DM Baraka, HM El-Shora… - BMC microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Background As antibiotics and chemotherapeutics are no longer as efficient as they once
were, multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens and cancer are presently considered as two of …

[HTML][HTML] Selenium nanoparticles synergistically stabilized by starch microgel and EGCG: Synthesis, characterization, and bioactivity

J Zhou, Y Liu, Y Hu, D Zhang, W Xu, L Chen, J He… - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Selenium (Se) is a chemical element essential to human health because of its bioactive
properties, including antioxidative, anticancer, and immunomodulating activities. Despite the …

Biosynthesis of selenium nanoparticles by lactic acid bacteria and areas of their possible applications

O Stabnikova, M Khonkiv, I Kovshar… - World Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Lactic acid bacteria, being generally recognized as safe, are the preferred choice among
other microbial producers of selenium nanoparticles. For successful production of SeNPs, it …

Cysteine-functionalized selenium nanoparticles for efficient extraction and preconcentration of cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc ions from environmental water …

T Golgoli, K Ghanemi, F Buazar - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to develop cysteine-functionalized selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs)
supported by γ-alumina (Al 2 O 3@ Se@ Cys) for the effective extraction and …

[HTML][HTML] Selenium nanoparticles coated bacterial polysaccharide with potent antimicrobial and anti-lung cancer activities

NS Shehata, BH Elwakil, SS Elshewemi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial exopolysaccharides are homopolymeric or heteropolymeric polysaccharides with
large molecular weights (10–1000 kDa). Exopolysaccharides' functional uses and potential …