Bacterial biofilm infections, their resistance to antibiotics therapy and current treatment strategies

A Singh, A Amod, P Pandey, P Bose… - Biomedical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nearly 80% of human chronic infections are caused due to bacterial biofilm formation. This
is the most leading cause for failure of medical implants resulting in high morbidity and …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound triggering of liposomal nanodrugs for cancer therapy: a review

WN Bahutair, WH Abuwatfa, GA Husseini - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Efficient conventional chemotherapy is limited by its nonspecific nature, which causes
severe systemic toxicity that can lead to patient discomfort and low therapeutic efficacy. The …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing ultrasound for targeting drug delivery to the brain and breaching the blood–brain tumour barrier

A Barzegar-Fallah, K Gandhi, SB Rizwan, TL Slatter… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite significant advances in developing drugs to treat brain tumours, achieving
therapeutic concentrations of the drug at the tumour site remains a major challenge due to …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and manipulating giant vesicles: Review of recent approaches

T Toyota, Y Zhang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Giant vesicles (GVs) are closed bilayer membranes that primarily comprise amphiphiles with
diameters of more than 1 μm. Compared with regular vesicles (several tens of nanometers in …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of lipid shape and interactions on the conformation, dynamics, and curvature of ultrasound-responsive liposomes

H Lee, H Moon, HR Kim - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
We perform coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of bilayers composed of
various lipids and cholesterol at their different ratios. Simulations show that cholesterol-lipid …

[图书][B] Understanding the Biological Effects of Non-thermal, Non-cavitational Therapeutic Ultrasound in Chronic Wound Healing

O Boerman - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The purpose of this thesis was to elucidate the effects of low-frequency (20 kHz), low-
intensity (100 mW/cm 2)(LFLI US) therapeutic ultrasound on macrophage behavior and …