Burn injury: challenges and advances in burn wound healing, infection, pain and scarring

Y Wang, J Beekman, J Hew, S Jackson… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Severe burn injuries are the most traumatic and physically debilitating injuries affecting
nearly every organ system and leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Early burn …

Polymyxin delivery systems: Recent advances and challenges

NV Dubashynskaya, YA Skorik - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polymyxins are vital antibiotics for the treatment of multiresistant Gram-negative ESKAPE
pathogen infections. However, their clinical value is limited by their high nephrotoxicity and …

Stimuli‐responsive prodrug chemistries for drug delivery

V Taresco, C Alexander, N Singh… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research into advanced therapeutic materials is of growing importance worldwide,
particularly in the disease areas of infection, neurodegeneration, and oncology. Advances …

Clinical applications of amylase: Novel perspectives

E Azzopardi, C Lloyd, SR Teixeira, RS Conlan… - Surgery, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Amylase was the first enzyme to be characterized, and for the previous 200
years, its clinical role has been restricted to a diagnostic aid. Recent interface research has …

Hyaluronan-colistin conjugates: Synthesis, characterization, and prospects for medical applications

NV Dubashynskaya, AN Bokatyi, ER Gasilova… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of nanotechnology-based antibiotic delivery systems (nanoantibiotics) is
an important challenge in the effort to combat microbial multidrug resistance. These systems …

Bi-functional alginate oligosaccharide–polymyxin conjugates for improved treatment of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections

J Stokniene, LC Powell, OA Aarstad, FL Aachmann… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The recent emergence of resistance to colistin, an antibiotic of last resort with dose-limiting
toxicity, has highlighted the need for alternative approaches to combat infection. This study …

Selective bacterial targeting and infection‐triggered release of antibiotic colistin conjugates

W Tegge, G Guerra, A Höltke, L Schiller… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In order to render potent, but toxic antibiotics more selective, we have explored a novel
conjugation strategy that includes drug accumulation followed by infection‐triggered release …

Modification of the antibiotic, colistin, with dextrin causes enhanced cytotoxicity and triggers apoptosis in myeloid leukemia

S Rizzo, M Varache, EJ Sayers, AT Jones… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains difficult to treat due to its heterogeneity
in molecular landscape, epigenetics and cell signaling alterations. Precision medicine is a …

Potential of sodium deoxycholate sulfate as a carrier for polymyxin B: Physicochemical properties, bioactivity and in vitro safety

P Temboot, S Kaewpaiboon, K Tinpun… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymyxin B (PMB) is used as the last line therapy for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative
bacterial infections; however, nephrotoxicity is still a concern. Here, PMB carried with …

Polysaccharides for protein and peptide conjugation

EL Ferguson, M Varache, J Stokniene… - Polymer-protein …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the 1970s, polysaccharides such as dextran, dextrin, hyaluronic acid, hydroxyethyl
starch, and polysialic acid have been investigated as carriers for therapeutic protein and …