[HTML][HTML] Gallium containing bioactive materials: A review of anticancer, antibacterial, and osteogenic properties

F Kurtuldu, N Mutlu, AR Boccaccini, D Galusek - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The incorporation of gallium into bioactive materials has been reported to enhance
osteogenesis, to influence blood clotting, and to induce anti-cancer and anti-bacterial …

Advancement of gallium and gallium-based compounds as antimicrobial agents

F Li, F Liu, K Huang, S Yang - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the abuse and misuse of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance has become a challenging
issue in the medical system. Iatrogenic and non-iatrogenic infections caused by multidrug …

Gallium disrupts bacterial iron metabolism and has therapeutic effects in mice and humans with lung infections

CH Goss, Y Kaneko, L Khuu, GD Anderson… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
The lack of new antibiotics is among the most critical challenges facing medicine. The
problem is particularly acute for Gram-negative bacteria. An unconventional antibiotic …

Drug repurposing as an alternative for the treatment of recalcitrant bacterial infections

A Rangel-Vega, LR Bernstein… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infection remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and the options for
treating such infections are decreasing, due the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The …

Promises and failures of gallium as an antibacterial agent

F Minandri, C Bonchi, E Frangipani, F Imperi… - Future …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Gallium has a long history as a diagnostic and chemotherapeutic agent. The
pharmacological properties of Ga (III) rely on chemical mimicry; when Ga (III) is exogenously …

The mechanism of metal-based antibacterial materials and the progress of food packaging applications: A review

X Yang, Q Yu, W Gao, X Tang, H Yi, X Tang - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
Food packages have been detected carrying novel coronavirus in multi-locations since the
outbreak of COVID-19, causing major concern in the field of food safety. Metal-based …

Repurposing of gallium‐based drugs for antibacterial therapy

C Bonchi, F Imperi, F Minandri, P Visca… - Biofactors, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
While the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is vanishing
current anti‐infective therapies, the antibiotic discovery pipeline is drying up. In the last …

Repurposing of anticancer drugs for the treatment of bacterial infections

V WC Soo, BW Kwan, H Quezada… - Current topics in …, 2017 - benthamdirect.com
Despite the fact that bacterial infections are one of the leading causes of death worldwide
and that mortality rates are increasing at alarming rates, no new antibiotics have been …

Inhibition of quorum‐sensing‐dependent virulence factors and biofilm formation of clinical and environmental Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains by ZnO nanoparticles

B García‐Lara, MÁ Saucedo‐Mora… - Letters in applied …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Quorum quenching decreases Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factors and biofilm
formation, alleviating infections in animal models. Nevertheless, it is usually performed in …

Combination of gallium (iii) with acetate for combating antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Y Wang, B Han, Y Xie, H Wang, R Wang, W Xia… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Gallium (III) has been widely used as a diagnostic and therapeutic agent in clinics for the
treatment of various diseases, in particular, Ga-based drugs have been exploited as …