Customizing nano-chitosan for sustainable drug delivery

M Saeedi, O Vahidi, MR Moghbeli, S Ahmadi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitosan is a natural polymer with acceptable biocompatibility, biodegradability, and
mechanical stability; hence, it has been widely appraised for drug and gene delivery …

Recent developments in membrane targeting antifungal agents to mitigate antifungal resistance

D Mehta, V Saini, A Bajaj - RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Fungal infections cause severe and life-threatening complications especially in
immunocompromised individuals. Antifungals targeting cellular machinery and cell …

Mycobacterial membranes as actionable targets for lipid-centric therapy in tuberculosis

B Modak, S Girkar, R Narayan… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Infectious diseases remain significant health concerns worldwide, and resistance is
particularly common in patients with tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Guiding drugs to target‐harboring organelles: Stretching drug‐delivery to a higher level of resolution

S Louzoun‐Zada, QZ Jaber, M Fridman - Angewandte Chemie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ratio between the dose of drug required for optimal efficacy and the dose that causes
toxicity is referred to as the therapeutic window. This ratio can be increased by directing the …

A lipophilic cation protects crops against fungal pathogens by multiple modes of action

G Steinberg, M Schuster, SJ Gurr, TA Schrader… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The emerging resistance of crop pathogens to fungicides poses a challenge to food security
and compels discovery of new antifungal compounds. Here, we show that mono-alkyl …

Potential for the development of a new generation of aminoglycoside antibiotics

AN Tevyashova, KS Shapovalova - Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal, 2021 - Springer
The present review summarizes recent publications devoted to aminoglycosides that study
the main types of resistance to antibiotics of this class and the main directions of chemical …

Amphiphilic aminoglycosides as medicinal agents

C Dezanet, J Kempf, MP Mingeot-Leclercq… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The conjugation of hydrophobic group (s) to the polycationic hydrophilic core of the antibiotic
drugs aminoglycosides (AGs), targeting ribosomal RNA, has led to the development of …

Chemical modifications reduce auditory cell damage induced by aminoglycoside antibiotics

SL Zada, BB Baruch, L Simhaev, H Engel… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Although aminoglycoside antibiotics are effective against Gram-negative infections, these
drugs often cause irreversible hearing damage. Binding to the decoding site of the …

An Alternative In Vitro Propagation Protocol of Cannabis sativa L. (Cannabaceae) Presenting Efficient Rooting, for Commercial Production

K Ioannidis, I Tomprou, V Mitsis - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
An alternative in vitro propagation protocol for medical Cannabis sativa L. cultivars for
pharmaceutical industrial use was established. The aim of the protocol was to reduce the …

Broad-spectrum antibacterial amphiphilic aminoglycosides: A new focus on the structure of the lipophilic groups extends the series of active dialkyl neamines

L Zimmermann, J Kempf, F Briée, J Swain… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic aminoglycosides (AAGs) constitute a new class of antibacterial compounds
targeting the bacterial membranes. We have identified the 3′, 6-dinonyl neamine 9 as a …