[HTML][HTML] Structural and biological engineering of 3D hydrogels for wound healing

MH Norahan, SC Pedroza-González… - Bioactive materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Chronic wounds have become one of the most important issues for healthcare systems and
are a leading cause of death worldwide. Wound dressings are necessary to facilitate wound …

Curcumin, the active substance of turmeric: its effects on health and ways to improve its bioavailability

ME Abd El‐Hack, MT El‐Saadony… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) is a spice utilized widely in India, China, and Southeast Asia as
an aromatic stimulant, a food preservative, and coloring material. The commonly used …

Antimicrobial nanofillers reinforced biopolymer composite films for active food packaging applications-a review

R Priyadarshi, S Roy, T Ghosh, D Biswas… - Sustainable Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Active food packaging is crucial nowadays due to the rising consumer demands for less
processed and preservative-free foods. Also, due to growing concern and overuse of …

Curcumin, a natural antimicrobial agent with strain-specific activity

A Adamczak, M Ożarowski, TM Karpiński - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Curcumin, a principal bioactive substance of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.), is reported as a
strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral agent. However …

Nanocurcumin: A promising candidate for therapeutic applications

A Karthikeyan, N Senthil, T Min - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Curcuma longa is an important medicinal plant and a spice in Asia. Curcumin
(diferuloylmethane) is a hydrophobic bioactive ingredient found in a rhizome of the C. longa …

The natural product curcumin as an antibacterial agent: Current achievements and problems

C Dai, J Lin, H Li, Z Shen, Y Wang, T Velkov, J Shen - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rapid spread of antibiotic resistance and lack of effective drugs for treating infections
caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria in animal and human medicine have forced us to find …

Preparation of bioactive functional poly (lactic acid)/curcumin composite film for food packaging application

S Roy, JW Rhim - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2020 - Elsevier
Poly (lactic acid)-based functional films incorporated with curcumin have been prepared
using a solution casting method. The PLA/curcumin composite film was flexible and highly …

Antimicrobial potential of curcumin: therapeutic potential and challenges to clinical applications

Y Hussain, W Alam, H Ullah, M Dacrema, M Daglia… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Curcumin is a bioactive compound that is extracted from Curcuma longa and that is known
for its antimicrobial properties. Curcuminoids are the main constituents of curcumin that …

Anti-infective properties of the golden spice curcumin

D Praditya, L Kirchhoff, J Brüning… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The search for novel anti-infectives is one of the most important challenges in natural
product research, as diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and fungi are influencing the …

[HTML][HTML] Curcumin as a photosensitizer: From molecular structure to recent advances in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

LD Dias, KC Blanco, IS Mfouo-Tynga, NM Inada… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays multi-drug resistant microorganisms is a serious public health problem
worldwide. To overcome it, new antimicrobial strategies have been developed. Among them …