Multifunctional antimicrobial materials: From rational design to biomedical applications

S Duan, R Wu, YH Xiong, HM Ren, C Lei… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Though the history of mankind, we are strongly fighting with infected diseases that are
induced by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other pathogens. Although a variety of medicines …

The role of nanotechnology in the treatment of viral infections

L Singh, HG Kruger, GEM Maguire… - Therapeutic …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Infectious diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, with viruses in particular
making global impact on healthcare and socioeconomic development. In addition, the rapid …

Nano drug-delivery systems for management of AIDS: liposomes, dendrimers, gold and silver nanoparticles

FD Asl, M Mousazadeh, S Taji, A Bahmani… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
AIDS causes increasing mortality every year. With advancements in nanomedicine, different
nanomaterials (NMs) have been applied to treat AIDS and overcome its limitations. Among …

Development and in vivo safety assessment of tenofovir-loaded nanoparticles-in-film as a novel vaginal microbicide delivery system

A Machado, C Cunha-Reis, F Araújo, R Nunes… - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Topical pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral drugs holds promise in
preventing vaginal transmission of HIV. However, significant biomedical and social issues …

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 …

Advances in antiviral material development

L Liang, A Ahamed, L Ge, X Fu, G Lisak - ChemPlusChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rise in human pandemics demands prudent approaches in antiviral material
development for disease prevention and treatment by effective protective equipment and …

Nanotechnology approaches to eradicating HIV reservoirs

S Cao, KA Woodrow - European Journal of Pharmaceutics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The advent of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has transformed HIV-1 infection into
a controllable chronic disease, but these therapies are incapable of eradicating the virus to …

Insights on oral drug delivery of lipid nanocarriers: a win-win solution for augmenting bioavailability of antiretroviral drugs

B Nabi, S Rehman, S Baboota, J Ali - Aaps Pharmscitech, 2019 - Springer
The therapeutic functionality of innumerable antiretroviral drugs is supposedly obscured
owing to their low metabolic stability in the gastrointestinal tract and poor solubilization …

Nanotechnology-based approaches for emerging and re-emerging viruses: special emphasis on COVID-19

M Saravanan, E Mostafavi, S Vincent, H Negash… - Microbial …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the major concern of emerging and re-emerging viral diseases has
become an increasingly important area of public health concern, and it is of significance to …

Nanomedicine in the development of anti-HIV microbicides

J das Neves, R Nunes, F Rodrigues… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
Prevention plays an invaluable role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The use of microbicides is
considered an interesting potential approach for topical pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV …