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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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Flourishing Antibacterial Strategies for Osteomyelitis Therapy

TL;DR: The main targets of antibacterial agents for treating osteomyelitis, including bacterial cell wall, cell membrane, intracellular macromolecules, and bacterial energy metabolism, were introduced in this paper .
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Curcumin-stabilized silver nanoparticles encapsulated in biocompatible electrospun nanofibrous scaffold for sustained eradication of drug-resistant bacteria.

TL;DR: In this paper , curcumin reduced and stabilized silver nanoparticles (C-Ag NPs) were successfully encapsulated into electrospun nanofiber membranes consisted of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) cross-linked by citric acids (CA), which exhibited desirable biocompatibility and broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities.
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Эффективность применения препарата протеината серебра в терапии острого назофарингита

TL;DR: The place of silver proteinate among drugs that help to relieve the symptoms of acute nasopharyngitis is described and its effectiveness, safety and features of use in children are provided and the drug can take a worthy place among topical drugs.
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Organic Waste as Reducing and Capping Agents for Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles with Various Applications

TL;DR: In this paper , a review contributes to fostering and promoting a sustainable environmental awareness through reuse and revalorization of organic waste, which allows the sustainable biosynthesis of functional silver nanoparticles to be widely applied successfully in various fields of application.
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Potential of nano-silver fluoride for tooth enamel caries prevention

TL;DR: This ex vivo study evaluated the efficiency of nano-silver fluoride to enamel remineralization of deciduous teeth submitted to a high cariogenic challenge and optical coherence tomography was employed for caries diagnosis, as it can be used in clinical environment.
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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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What is the Antimicrobial mechanism of action of silver nanoparticles?

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