Lyuba Mikhalovska

TL;DR: This review provids a concise discussion of nano carriers for drug transport across the intact BBB, various forms of nanomaterials including inorganic/solid lipid/polymeric nanoparticles, nanoemulsions, quantum dots, nanogels, liposomes, micelles, dendrimers, polymersomes and exosomes are critically evaluated, and the future directions of this area are fully discussed.

TL;DR: Investigation of the host response to two of the materials used in stent manufacture, stainless steel and diamond-like carbon, showed that stainless steel induced a higher level of host response both in terms of platelet aggregation and macrophage activation, suggesting that carbon coatings may not be able to prevent restenosis.

TL;DR: The presence of menthol modified nanodiamond (ND-menthol) particles reduces biofilm formation more efficiently than free menthol, unmodified oxidized NDs and ampicillin, a commonly used antibiotic.

TL;DR: It has been shown that the adsorption of fibrinogen to metal and carbon coatings and its post-adsorptive transition are dependent on both the material properties and the fibr inogen environment.

TL;DR: The antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of variously functionalized NDs against two common bacterial targets Gram‐negative bacterium Escherichia coli and Gram‐positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus are compared.