Engineering mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery: where are we after two decades?

M Vallet-Regí, F Schüth, D Lozano, M Colilla… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The present review details a chronological description of the events that took place during
the development of mesoporous materials, their different synthetic routes and their use as …

Synergistic effects between metal nanoparticles and commercial antimicrobial agents: A review

AI Ribeiro, AM Dias, A Zille - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has expanded into a broad range of clinical applications. In particular,
metal nanoparticles (MNPs) display unique antimicrobial properties, a fundamental function …

[HTML][HTML] Mushrooms as future generation healthy foods

V Bell, C Silva, J Guina, TH Fernandes - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The potential of edible mushrooms as an unexploited treasure trove, although rarely
included in known food guidelines, is highlighted. Their role in shielding people against the …

Nanomaterials for photocatalytic degradations of analgesic, mucolytic and anti-biotic/viral/inflammatory drugs widely used in controlling SARS-CoV-2

M Ebrahimi, O Akhavan - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been transformed into one of the main worldwide challenges,
in recent years. For controlling symptoms that are caused by this disease (eg, chills or fever …

[HTML][HTML] Viral proteases as therapeutic targets

T Majerová, J Konvalinka - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Some medically important viruses―including retroviruses, flaviviruses, coronaviruses, and
herpesviruses―code for a protease, which is indispensable for viral maturation and …

Promising Schiff bases in antiviral drug design and discovery

S Kaushik, SK Paliwal, MR Iyer, VM Patil - Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2023 - Springer
Emerging and re-emerging illnesses will probably present a new hazard of infectious
diseases and have fostered the urge to research new antiviral agents. Most of the antiviral …

Seaweed-derived phlorotannins: a review of multiple biological roles and action mechanisms

F Khan, GJ Jeong, MSA Khan, N Tabassum, YM Kim - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phlorotannins are a group of phenolic secondary metabolites isolated from a variety of
brown algal species belonging to the Fucaceae, Sargassaceae, and Alariaceae families …

Potential of Marine Terpenoids against SARS-CoV-2: An In Silico Drug Development Approach

A Sahoo, S Fuloria, SS Swain, SK Panda, M Sekar… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
In an emergency, drug repurposing is the best alternative option against newly emerged
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. However, several …

Computational bioprospecting guggulsterone against ADP ribose phosphatase of SARS-CoV-2

M Kciuk, S Mujwar, I Rani, K Munjal, A Gielecińska… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease caused by Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The World Health Organization …

Transformer-based molecular generative model for antiviral drug design

J Mao, J Wang, A Zeb, KH Cho, H Jin… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Since the Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) is oriented to the atomic-
level representation of molecules and is not friendly in terms of human readability and …