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In vivo antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles produced via a green chemistry synthesis using Acacia rigidula as a reducing and capping agent

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Nanomedicine, April 2018
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Title
In vivo antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles produced via a green chemistry synthesis using Acacia rigidula as a reducing and capping agent
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International Journal of Nanomedicine, April 2018
DOI 10.2147/ijn.s160605
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Carlos Enrique Escárcega-González, JA Garza-Cervantes, A Vázquez-Rodríguez, Liliana Zulem Montelongo-Peralta, MT Treviño-González, E Díaz Barriga Castro, EM Saucedo-Salazar, RM Chávez Morales, DI Regalado Soto, FM Treviño González, JL Carrazco Rosales, Rocío Villalobos Cruz, José Rubén Morones-Ramírez

Abstract

One of the main issues in the medical field and clinical practice is the development of novel and effective treatments against infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One avenue that has been approached to develop effective antimicrobials is the use of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs), since they have been found to exhibit an efficient and wide spectrum of antimicrobial properties. Among the main drawbacks of using Ag-NPs are their potential cytotoxicity against eukaryotic cells and the latent environmental toxicity of their synthesis methods. Therefore, diverse green synthesis methods, which involve the use of environmentally friendly plant extracts as reductive and capping agents, have become attractive to synthesize Ag-NPs that exhibit antimicrobial effects against resistant bacteria at concentrations below toxicity thresholds for eukaryotic cells. In this study, we report a green one-pot synthesis method that uses Acacia rigidula extract as a reducing and capping agent, to produce Ag-NPs with applications as therapeutic agents to treat infections in vivo. The Ag-NPs were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution TEM, selected area electron diffraction, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible, and Fourier transform infrared. We show that Ag-NPs are spherical with a narrow size distribution. The Ag-NPs show antimicrobial activities in vitro against Gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and a clinical multidrug-resistant strain of P. aeruginosa) and Gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) bacteria. Moreover, antimicrobial effects of the Ag-NPs, against a resistant P. aeruginosa clinical strain, were tested in a murine skin infection model. The results demonstrate that the Ag-NPs reported in this work are capable of eradicating pathogenic resistant bacteria in an infection in vivo. In addition, skin, liver, and kidney damage profiles were monitored in the murine infection model, and the results demonstrate that Ag-NPs can be used safely as therapeutic agents in animal models. Together, these results suggest the potential use of Ag-NPs, synthesized by green chemistry methods, as therapeutic agents against infections caused by resistant and nonresistant strains.

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Unknown 227 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 13%
Student > Bachelor 27 12%
Student > Master 24 11%
Researcher 15 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 81 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 30 13%
Chemistry 24 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 7%
Chemical Engineering 12 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 11 5%
Other 41 18%
Unknown 92 41%
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#15,097,241
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#35
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