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Silver nanoparticles: A new view on mechanistic aspects on antimicrobial activity

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This overview incorporates a retrospective of previous reviews published from 2007 to 2013 and recent original contributions on the progress of research on antimicrobial mechanisms to summarize the current knowledge in the field of antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles.
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This article is published in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine.The article was published on 2016-04-01. It has received 1055 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Silver nanoparticle.

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Antimicrobial Orthodontic Wires Coated with Silver Nanoparticles

TL;DR: In this paper, a green process was used to attach silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) to the surface of two different brands of orthodontic wires and the coated materials were analyzed for their physicochemical properties by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
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Fabrication and Antibacterial Properties of Silver/Graphite Oxide/Chitosan and Silver/Reduced Graphene Oxide/Chitosan Nanocomposites

TL;DR: In this paper, the results confirmed that the prepared nanocomposites exhibited broad-spectrum antibacterial activity against the two bacteria, including Gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum and Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli strain DH5α, over durations of 8 and 20 hours.
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Silver ions cause oscillation of bacterial length of Escherichia coli

TL;DR: A model similar to the predator-prey argument was developed to understand the observed oscillations of cell-length upon exposure to Ag+ ions and successfully produced the oscillations, which explained the observed heterogeneity in the bacterial responses to Ag- ions.
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Optically activated and interrogated plasmonic hydrogels for applications in wound healing.

TL;DR: The bimetallic component ensures optical tunability, enhanced shelf life and photothermal stability, serves as a reservoir of germicidal silver cations, and changes in near-infrared and visible color according to the environmental level of oxidative stress, and is ideal to bind connective tissue upon photothermal activation.
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The bactericidal effect of silver nanoparticles

TL;DR: The results indicate that the bactericidal properties of the nanoparticles are size dependent, since the only nanoparticles that present a direct interaction with the bacteria preferentially have a diameter of approximately 1-10 nm.
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Silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial agent: a case study on E. coli as a model for Gram-negative bacteria

TL;DR: These nontoxic nanomaterials, which can be prepared in a simple and cost-effective manner, may be suitable for the formulation of new types of bactericidal materials.
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Antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles

TL;DR: The results suggest that Ag nanoparticles can be used as effective growth inhibitors in various microorganisms, making them applicable to diverse medical devices and antimicrobial control systems.
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Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance

TL;DR: Known mechanisms of microbial resistance (both intrinsic and acquired) to biocides are reviewed, with emphasis on the clinical implications of these reports.
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Does the antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles depend on the shape of the nanoparticle? A study of the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli.

TL;DR: This is the first comparative study on the bactericidal properties of silver nanoparticles of different shapes, and the results demonstrate thatsilver nanoparticles undergo a shape-dependent interaction with the gram-negative organism E. coli.
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