Despite numerous existing potent antibiotics and other antimicrobial means, bacterial
infections are still a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Moreover, the need to develop …

Use of nanoparticles is among the most promising strategies to overcome microbial drug
resistance. This review article consists of three parts. The first part discusses the …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can attack a diverse range of targets to exert antimicrobial
activity, which accounts for their versatility in mediating host defense against a broad range …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the closely related reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are
often generated in applications of atmospheric pressure plasmas intended for biomedical …

Burn wounds are often complicated by bacterial infection, contributing to morbidity and
mortality. Agents commonly used to treat burn wound infection are limited by toxicity …

Despite the fact that we live in an era of advanced and innovative technologies for
elucidating underlying mechanisms of diseases and molecularly designing new drugs …

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have increased at an alarming rate over recent decades
and cause serious problems. The emergence of resistant infections caused by these …

Nitric oxide (NO) is a short-lived, diatomic, lipophilic gas that plays an integral role in
defending against pathogens. Among its many functions are involvement in immune cell …

For more than 2 billion years, microbes have reigned on our planet, evolving or outlasting
many obstacles they have encountered. In the 20th century, this trend took a dramatic turn …

Nitric oxide (NO) serves as a key regulator of many physiological processes and as a potent
therapeutic agent. The local delivery of NO is important to achieve target therapeutic …