[HTML][HTML] Essential oils as anticancer agents: Potential role in malignancies, drug delivery mechanisms, and immune system enhancement

M Sharma, K Grewal, R Jandrotia, DR Batish… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer retains a central place in fatality rates among the wide variety of diseases known
world over, and the conventional synthetic medicaments, albeit used until now, produce …

Nanomaterials for alternative antibacterial therapy

HA Hemeg - International journal of nanomedicine, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Despite an array of cogent antibiotics, bacterial infections, notably those produced by
nosocomial pathogens, still remain a leading factor of morbidity and mortality around the …

Targeting apoptotic pathway of cancer cells with phytochemicals and plant-based nanomaterials

AK Wani, N Akhtar, TG Mir, R Singh, PK Jha, SK Mallik… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Apoptosis is the elimination of functionally non-essential, neoplastic, and infected cells via
the mitochondrial pathway or death receptor pathway. The process of apoptosis is highly …

Nanoparticles—Attractive carriers of antimicrobial essential oils

A Nair, R Mallya, V Suvarna, TA Khan, M Momin… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial pathogens are the most prevalent cause of chronic infections and fatalities around
the world. Antimicrobial agents including antibiotics have been frequently utilized in the …

Therapeutic and diagnostic potential of nanomaterials for enhanced biomedical applications

M Abd Elkodous, GS El-Sayyad… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biomedical applications of nanomaterials have received considerable attention and interest
from many researchers over the past decade due to the key role they can play in enhancing …

Effectiveness and mechanisms of essential oils for biofilm control on food-contact surfaces: An updated review

C Rossi, C Chaves-López, A Serio… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Microbial biofilms represent a constant source of contamination in the food industry, being
also a real threat for human health. In fact, most of biofilm-producing bacteria are becoming …

Recent advances in plant-mediated engineered gold nanoparticles and their application in biological system

KS Siddiqi, A Husen - Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
For biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles different parts of a plant are used as they contain
metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols, terpenoids, alcohols, sugars and …

Nanotechnology in combating biofilm: A smart and promising therapeutic strategy

YK Mohanta, I Chakrabartty, AK Mishra… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Since the birth of civilization, people have recognized that infectious microbes cause serious
and often fatal diseases in humans. One of the most dangerous characteristics of …

[HTML][HTML] Biopolymer gelatin-coated zinc oxide nanoparticles showed high antibacterial, antibiofilm and anti-angiogenic activity

M Divya, B Vaseeharan, M Abinaya… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of natural polymers in drug design plays an important role in biomedical
applications. Combinations of nanoparticles (NPs) and biopolymers have been shown to be …

Nanoparticles approach to eradicate bacterial biofilm-related infections: A critical review

FA Al-Wrafy, AA Al-Gheethi, SK Ponnusamy… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofilm represents one of the crucial factors for the emergence of multi-drug resistance
bacterial infections. The high mortality, morbidity and medical device-related infections are …