Recent advances and mechanistic insights into antibacterial activity, antibiofilm activity, and cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles

N Tripathi, MK Goshisht - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
The substantial increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria is a major threat
to global health. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported …

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles: biomolecule-nanoparticle organizations targeting antimicrobial activity

A Roy, O Bulut, S Some, AK Mandal, MD Yilmaz - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Since discovery of the first antibiotic drug, penicillin, in 1928, a variety of antibiotic and
antimicrobial agents have been developed and used for both human therapy and industrial …

A review on the biosynthesis of metal and metal salt nanoparticles by microbes

G Gahlawat, AR Choudhury - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoparticles have received great attention from researchers across the world
because of a plethora of applications in agriculture and the biomedical field as antioxidants …

ROS and RNS modulation: the main antimicrobial, anticancer, antidiabetic, and antineurodegenerative mechanisms of metal or metal oxide nanoparticles

M Alavi, R Yarani - Nano Micro Biosystems, 2023 - nmb-journal.com
Severe side effects of chemotherapeutic and anti-diabetic drugs for cancer cells and type 2
diabetes (T2D) type and emerging drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms …

Mushroom polysaccharides: chemistry and antiobesity, antidiabetes, anticancer, and antibiotic properties in cells, rodents, and humans

M Friedman - Foods, 2016 - mdpi.com
More than 2000 species of edible and/or medicinal mushrooms have been identified to date,
many of which are widely consumed, stimulating much research on their health-promoting …

Caesalpinia coriaria leaf extracts mediated biosynthesis of metallic silver nanoparticles and their antibacterial activity against clinically isolated pathogens

K Jeeva, M Thiyagarajan, V Elangovan… - Industrial Crops and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A rapid method for synthesis of silver nanoparticles using the leaf extracts of Caesalpinia
coriaria that has high level of tannin contents is reported. For leaf extracts preparation, two …

Antioxidant activity of mushroom extracts/polysaccharides—Their antiviral properties and plausible antiCOVID-19 properties

S Chun, J Gopal, M Muthu - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mushrooms have been long accomplished for their medicinal properties and bioactivity. The
ancients benefitted from it, even before they knew that there was more to mushrooms than …

Preparation, characterization and application of polysaccharide-based metallic nanoparticles: a review

C Wang, X Gao, Z Chen, Y Chen, H Chen - Polymers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Polysaccharides are natural biopolymers that have been recognized to be the most
promising hosts for the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) because of their …

Silver nanoparticles strongly enhance and restore bactericidal activity of inactive antibiotics against multiresistant Enterobacteriaceae

A Panáček, M Smékalová, R Večeřová… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2016 - Elsevier
Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics is currently one of the most important
healthcare issues, and has serious negative impacts on medical practice. This study …

Synthesis of platinum nanoparticles using seaweed Padina gymnospora and their catalytic activity as PVP/PtNPs nanocomposite towards biological applications

VS Ramkumar, A Pugazhendhi, S Prakash… - Biomedicine & …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the recent years, synthesis of nanomaterials using seaweeds and their diverse
applications is escalating research in modern era. Among the noble metals, platinum …