Smart stimuli-responsive chitosan hydrogel for drug delivery: A review

B Tian, J Liu - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Smart stimuli-responsive materials can respond to different signals (pH, temperature, light,
electricity, etc.), and they have become a hot research topic for drug delivery. As a …

Recent advances in nanoparticle-mediated antibacterial applications

S Roy, I Hasan, B Guo - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics led us vulnerable to multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria,
biofilms, and intracellular infections. The failure of conventional antibiotics thus gives rise to …

Stimuli-responsive drug release from smart polymers

CM Wells, M Harris, L Choi, VP Murali… - Journal of functional …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the past 10 years, stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials have emerged as effective
systems for the delivery of therapeutics. Persistent with ongoing efforts to minimize adverse …

Recent advances in nanoparticle-based cancer drug and gene delivery

N Amreddy, A Babu, R Muralidharan… - Advances in cancer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Effective and safe delivery of anticancer agents is among the major challenges in cancer
therapy. The majority of anticancer agents are toxic to normal cells, have poor bioavailability …

Recent developments in antibacterial therapy: Focus on stimuli-responsive drug-delivery systems and therapeutic nanoparticles

R Canaparo, F Foglietta, F Giuntini, C Della Pepa… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Conventional drugs used for antibacterial therapy display several limitations. This is not due
to antibiotics being ineffective, but rather due to their low bioavailability, limited penetration …

Chitosan-based smart biomaterials for biomedical applications: Progress and perspectives

IJ Budiarso, NDW Rini, A Tsalsabila… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, smart and functional biomaterials have escalated as one of the most
rapidly emerging fields in the life sciences because the performance of biomaterials could …

Recent advances in functionalized nanomaterials for the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infections

CI Colino, JM Lanao, C Gutierrez-Millan - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing problem of resistant infections due to antibiotic misuse is a worldwide concern
that poses a grave threat to healthcare systems. Thus, it is necessary to discover new …

Stimuli-sensitive drug delivery systems for site-specific antibiotic release

F Nazir, TA Tabish, F Tariq, S Iftikhar, R Wasim… - Drug Discovery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Site-specific delivery of antibiotics has always been a high-priority area in pharmaceutical
research. Conventionally used antibiotics suffer several limitations, such as low …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoantibiotics to fight multidrug resistant infections by Gram-positive bacteria: hope or reality?

F Berini, V Orlandi, R Gornati, G Bernardini… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The spread of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-positive pathogens represents a threat to
human health. To counteract the current lack of novel antibiotics, alternative antibacterial …

Big family of nano-and microscale drug delivery systems ranging from inorganic materials to polymeric and stimuli-responsive carriers as well as drug-conjugates

Z Shariatinia - Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional drug administration routs suffer from low selective distribution, poor solubility, fast
elimination and damaging adjacent healthy tissues (especially in cancer therapy). Thus …