Air pollution, ultrafine particles, and your brain: are combustion nanoparticle emissions and engineered nanoparticles causing preventable fatal neurodegenerative …

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, A Ayala - Environmental science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Exposure to particulate matter (PM) pollution damages the human brain. Fossil fuel burning
for transportation energy accounts for a significant fraction of urban air and climate pollution …

The crown and the scepter: roles of the protein corona in nanomedicine

R Cai, C Chen - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Engineering nanomaterials are increasingly considered promising and powerful biomedical
tools or devices for imaging, drug delivery, and cancer therapies, but few nanomaterials …

Green synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles using different plants' parts for antimicrobial activity and anticancer activity: a review article

A Bukhari, I Ijaz, E Gilani, A Nazir, H Zain, R Saeed… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology emerged as a scientific innovation in the 21st century. Metallic
nanoparticles (metal or metal oxide nanoparticles) have attained remarkable popularity due …

The interaction between nanoparticles-protein corona complex and cells and its toxic effect on cells

N Liu, M Tang, J Ding - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Once nanoparticles (NPs) contact with the biological fluids, the proteins immediately adsorb
onto their surface, forming a layer called protein corona (PC), which bestows the biological …

Similarities and differences between silver ions and silver in nanoforms as antibacterial agents

A Kędziora, M Speruda, E Krzyżewska, J Rybka… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Silver is considered as antibacterial agent with well-known mode of action and bacterial
resistance against it is well described. The development of nanotechnology provided …

The Lord of the Lungs: The essential role of pulmonary surfactant upon inhalation of nanoparticles

C Garcia-Mouton, A Hidalgo, A Cruz… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid development of nanotechnology is opening a huge world of promising
possibilities in healthcare, but this is also increasing the necessity to study the potential risk …

Quadruple abnormal protein aggregates in brainstem pathology and exogenous metal-rich magnetic nanoparticles (and engineered Ti-rich nanorods). The substantia …

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, A González-Maciel… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fine particulate air pollution (PM 2.5) exposures are linked with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
diseases (AD, PD). AD and PD neuropathological hallmarks are documented in children …

Coating matters: Review on colloidal stability of nanoparticles with biocompatible coatings in biological media, living cells and organisms

J Schubert, M Chanana - Current medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Within the last two decades, the field of nanomedicine has not developed as successfully as
has widely been hoped for. The main reason for this is the immense complexity of the …

Particulate air pollution and risk of neuropsychiatric outcomes. What we breathe, swallow, and put on our skin matters

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, EW Stommel… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
We appraise newly accumulated evidence of the impact of particle pollution on the brain, the
portals of entry, the neural damage mechanisms, and ultimately the neurological and …

Combustion and friction-derived nanoparticles and industrial-sourced nanoparticles: The culprit of Alzheimer and Parkinson's diseases.

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, R Reynoso-Robles… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Redox-active, strongly magnetic, combustion and friction-derived nanoparticles (CFDNPs)
are abundant in particulate matter air pollution. Urban children and young adults with …