Stimuli-responsive engineered living materials

LK Rivera-Tarazona, ZT Campbell, TH Ware - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive materials are able to undergo controllable changes in materials
properties in response to external cues. Increasing efforts have been directed towards …

[HTML][HTML] Application of polymeric nanocarriers for enhancing the bioavailability of antibiotics at the target site and overcoming antimicrobial resistance

H Le, C Karakasyan, T Jouenne, D Le Cerf, E Dé - Applied sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats to global health. Although the efforts in
antibiotic drug discovery continue to play a pivotal role, this solution alone probably will not …

Perspectives and challenges of using chitosan in various biological applications

S Amirthalingam, AK Rajendran, P Mani… - … for Biomaterials III …, 2021 - Springer
Chitosan is a cationic biopolymer that is derived from chitin by the alkaline deacetylation
technique. It has randomly distributed d-glucosamine and N-Acetyl-d-glucosamine units in …

Magnetic nanoparticles and alternating magnetic field for cancer therapy

H Mekaru, Y Ichiyanagi, F Tamanoi - Cell-Inspired Materials and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Development of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) represents an important advance
in cancer therapy. We first describe physical properties of MNPs and the study to enhance …

Developing releasable antimicrobial peptide-polyethylene glycol conjugates by targeting infection site-associated host matrix metalloproteinases

M Drayton - 2021 - open.library.ubc.ca
The rapid generation of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has caused bacterial infections
to become a global health concern. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), or host defence peptides …