Recent advances and mechanistic insights into antibacterial activity, antibiofilm activity, and cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles

N Tripathi, MK Goshisht - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
The substantial increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria is a major threat
to global health. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported …

Resource diversity of Chinese macrofungi: edible, medicinal and poisonous species

F Wu, LW Zhou, ZL Yang, T Bau, TH Li, YC Dai - Fungal diversity, 2019 - Springer
The huge land areas in China provide highly diverse habitats for macrofungi. Of these
macrofungi, many are directly related to people's daily life and have been utilized by ancient …

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles: biomolecule-nanoparticle organizations targeting antimicrobial activity

A Roy, O Bulut, S Some, AK Mandal, MD Yilmaz - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Since discovery of the first antibiotic drug, penicillin, in 1928, a variety of antibiotic and
antimicrobial agents have been developed and used for both human therapy and industrial …

Anti-biofilm and antibacterial activities of silver nanoparticles synthesized by the reducing activity of phytoconstituents present in the Indian medicinal plants

YK Mohanta, K Biswas, SK Jena, A Hashem… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Biofilm forming from a variety of microbial pathogens can pose a serious health hazard that
is difficult to combat. Nanotechnology, however, represents a new approach to fighting and …

Innovative strategies toward the disassembly of the EPS matrix in bacterial biofilms

RM Pinto, FA Soares, S Reis, C Nunes… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial biofilms represent a major concern at a worldwide level due to the high demand for
implantable medical devices and the rising numbers of bacterial resistance. The complex …

Microwave-assisted green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using crude extracts of Boletus edulis and Coriolus versicolor: Characterization, anticancer, antimicrobial …

Ö Kaplan, NG Tosun, A Özgür, SE Tayhan… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The green synthesis of metal nanoparticles has been promising approach in the field of
nanomedicine due to its low-cost, non-toxic, biocompatible and sustainable features. In …

Silver bullets: A new lustre on an old antimicrobial agent

JS Möhler, W Sim, MAT Blaskovich, MA Cooper… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Silver was widely used in medicine to treat bacterial infections in the 19th and early 20th
century, up until the discovery and development of the first modern antibiotics in the 1940s …

Silver nanoparticles synthesized using wild mushroom show potential antimicrobial activities against food borne pathogens

YK Mohanta, D Nayak, K Biswas, SK Singdevsachan… - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
The present study demonstrates an economical and eco-friendly method for the synthesis of
silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using the wild mushroom Ganoderma sessiliforme. The …

Ganoderma lucidum: Unutilized natural medicine and promising future solution to emerging diseases in Africa

MA Oke, FJ Afolabi, OO Oyeleke, TA Kilani… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ganoderma lucidum is a well-known medicinal mushroom that has been used for the
prevention and treatment of different ailments to enhance longevity and health specifically in …

[HTML][HTML] Optimized synthesis of small and stable silver nanoparticles using intracellular and extracellular components of fungi: An alternative for bacterial inhibition

EI Murillo-Rábago, AR Vilchis-Nestor… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) represent an excellent option to solve microbial resistance
problems to traditionally used antibiotics. In this work, we report optimized protocols for the …