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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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Facile green synthesis of non-genotoxic, non-hemolytic organometallic silver nanoparticles using extract of crushed, wasted, and spent Humulus lupulus (hops): Characterization, anti-bacterial, and anti-cancer studies

TL;DR: In this paper , wasted and unusable Humulus lupulus (Hops) extract was used to synthesize silver nanoparticles (AgNP@HOPs), and the synthesized product exhibited an excellent therapeutic effect in terms of anti-bacterial and anti-cancer agents.
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Alginate films functionalized with silver sulfadiazine-loaded [Mg-Al] layered double hydroxide as antimicrobial wound dressing.

TL;DR: A suitable approach for preparing innovative active wound dressing for efficient delivery of drugs is described and samples containing SDZ exhibited inhibitory activity against S. aureus, E. coli, and S. enterica.
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Antibacterial chitosan composite films with food-inspired carbon spheres immobilized AgNPs.

TL;DR: In this article, two kinds of green hydrothermal carbonized methods were used to treat sulfhydryl-modified chitosan to obtain two types of carbon spheres/AgNPs (glutinous rice sesameballs-like AgNPs-SMCS and dragon fruit-like SMCS-Ag), which exhibited good stability and high immobilization efficiency for AgNs.
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pH-Triggered Size-Tunable Silver Nanoparticles: Targeted Aggregation for Effective Bacterial Infection Therapy.

TL;DR: Silver nanoparticles (Ag-P&C NPs) with pH-sensitive charge reversal and self-aggregation capacities are successfully synthesized and exhibit an excellent performance in killing bacteria, inhibiting plaque biofilms, and ameliorating inflammatory responses.
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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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