[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Gallium and gallium compounds: New insights into the “Trojan horse” strategy in medical applications

W Sun, M Qi, S Cheng, C Li, B Dong, L Wang - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Infection, inflammation, tumors, and other illnesses have for a long time posed a major
danger to human health and have developed into a global public health issue. However, the …

Gallium-enabled bactericidal medicine

Y Liu, F Yang, Z Pan, Z Fu, X Jiang, Z Cao, J Li… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Metallic materials have been used as antibacterial agents since antiquity. Gallium (Ga), an
abiogenic metal, has shown pharmaceutical effects in developing unconventional …

Strategies to prevent, curb and eliminate biofilm formation based on the characteristics of various periods in one biofilm life cycle

R Ma, X Hu, X Zhang, W Wang, J Sun, Z Su… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biofilms are colonies of bacteria embedded inside a complicated self-generating
intercellular. The formation and scatter of a biofilm is an extremely complex and progressive …

Advantageous reactivity of unstable metal complexes: Potential applications of metal-based anticancer drugs for intratumoral injections

A Levina, DC Crans, PA Lay - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Injections of highly cytotoxic or immunomodulating drugs directly into the inoperable tumor is
a procedure that is increasingly applied in the clinic and uses established Pt-based drugs. It …

Polypyridyl ruthenium complexes with benzothiazole moiety as membrane disruptors and anti-resistance agents for Staphylococcus aureus

W Deng, CY Zhang, LX Dou, LT Huang… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Developing new antimicrobials to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections is necessary
due to the increasing problem of bacterial resistance. In this study, four metallic ruthenium …

Bi 2 O 3 nanoparticles exhibit potent broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and the ability to overcome Ag-, ciprofloxacin-and meropenem-resistance in P. aeruginosa …

BD Pant, BM Benin, N Abeydeera, MH Kim… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance is a persistent threat to global public health. In order to combat the
spread of pathogenic bacteria, numerous antimicrobial materials have been incorporated …

Development of Gallium (III) as an Antimicrobial Drug Targeting Pathophysiologic Iron Metabolism of Human Pathogens

ZW Scott, S Choi, BE Britigan… - ACS infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The treatment of infections is becoming more difficult due to emerging resistance of
pathogens to existing drugs. As such, alternative druggable targets, particularly those that …

The sensitive fluorescence assay of phosphates and alkaline phosphatase based on terbium nanocomplexes synthesized via ligand proportion regulation

H Li, S Zhang, M Chen, J Wang - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022 - Elsevier
Bimetallic dual-ligands terbium nanocomplexes (Tb/DPA/Fe/SSA NCs) with unique internal
structure was fabricated by in situ coordination assembly of the Tb 3+, Fe 3+ and antenna …