[HTML][HTML] Antiviral surfaces and coatings and their mechanisms of action

PD Rakowska, M Tiddia, N Faruqui, C Bankier… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Viral infections are a serious health challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased
the demand for antiviral measures and treatments for clean surfaces, especially in public …

[HTML][HTML] Current scenario of peptide-based drugs: the key roles of cationic antitumor and antiviral peptides

KCL Mulder, LA Lima, VJ Miranda, SC Dias… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Cationic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and host defense peptides (HDPs) show vast
potential as peptide-based drugs. Great effort has been made in order to exploit their …

Amphiphilic poly (amino acid) based micelles applied to drug delivery: The in vitro and in vivo challenges and the corresponding potential strategies

H Xu, Q Yao, C Cai, J Gou, Y Zhang, H Zhong… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Core–shell structured micelles produced from an amphiphilic block copolymer are promising
drug delivery vehicles because their hydrophobic core can encapsulate hydrophobic drugs …

Stopping membrane-enveloped viruses with nanotechnology strategies: Toward antiviral drug development and pandemic preparedness

BK Yoon, WY Jeon, TN Sut, NJ Cho, JA Jackman - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Membrane-enveloped viruses are a leading cause of viral epidemics, and there is an
outstanding need to develop broad-spectrum antiviral strategies to treat and prevent …

[HTML][HTML] Supramolecular self-assembled peptide-based vaccines: current state and future perspectives

T Abdullah, K Bhatt, LJ Eggermont, N O'Hare… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Despite the undeniable success of vaccination programs in preventing diseases, effective
vaccines against several life-threatening infectious pathogens such as human …

Biomimetic nanomaterial strategies for virus targeting: Antiviral therapies and vaccines

JA Jackman, BK Yoon, L Ouyang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic highlights the importance of
developing effective virus targeting strategies to treat and prevent viral infections. Since virus …

[HTML][HTML] Inorganic and polymeric nanoparticles for human viral and bacterial infections prevention and treatment

JJ Aguilera-Correa, J Esteban, M Vallet-Regí - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases hold third place in the top 10 causes of death worldwide and were
responsible for more than 6.7 million deaths in 2016. Nanomedicine is a multidisciplinary …

Peptidomimetics as a new generation of antimicrobial agents: current progress

P Méndez-Samperio - Infection and drug resistance, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Antibiotic resistance is an increasing public health concern around the world. Rapid
increase in the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria has been the target of extensive …

Bimetallic assembly of Fe (III) doped ZnO as an effective nanoantibiotic and its ROS independent antibacterial mechanism

V Saxena, LM Pandey - Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Results FZO NPs were hexagonal wurtzite in structure with increased lattice parameters
concerning dopant concentrations. Properties such as rod-shaped morphology, small …

Nanomedicine for infectious disease applications: innovation towards broad‐spectrum treatment of viral infections

JA Jackman, J Lee, NJ Cho - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomedicine enables unique diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities to tackle problems in
clinical medicine. As multifunctional agents with programmable properties, nanomedicines …