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Overview of Antimicrobial Biodegradable Polyester-Based Formulations.
Gherasim, Oana; Grumezescu, Valentina; Irimiciuc, Stefan Andrei.
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  • Gherasim O; National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, 077125 Magurele, Romania.
  • Grumezescu V; National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, 077125 Magurele, Romania.
  • Irimiciuc SA; Academy of Romanian Scientists, Splaiul Independentei No. 54, 050044 Bucharest, Romania.
Int J Mol Sci ; 24(3)2023 Feb 02.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36769266
ABSTRACT
As the clinical complications induced by microbial infections are known to have life-threatening side effects, conventional anti-infective therapy is necessary, but not sufficient to overcome these issues. Some of their limitations are connected to drug-related inefficiency or resistance and pathogen-related adaptive modifications. Therefore, there is an urgent need for advanced antimicrobials and antimicrobial devices. A challenging, yet successful route has been the development of new biostatic or biocide agents and biomaterials by considering the indisputable advantages of biopolymers. Polymers are attractive materials due to their physical and chemical properties, such as compositional and structural versatility, tunable reactivity, solubility and degradability, and mechanical and chemical tunability, together with their intrinsic biocompatibility and bioactivity, thus enabling the fabrication of effective pharmacologically active antimicrobial formulations. Besides representing protective or potentiating carriers for conventional drugs, biopolymers possess an impressive ability for conjugation or functionalization. These aspects are key for avoiding malicious side effects or providing targeted and triggered drug delivery (specific and selective cellular targeting), and generally to define their pharmacological efficacy. Moreover, biopolymers can be processed in different forms (particles, fibers, films, membranes, or scaffolds), which prove excellent candidates for modern anti-infective applications. This review contains an overview of antimicrobial polyester-based formulations, centered around the effect of the dimensionality over the properties of the material and the effect of the production route or post-processing actions.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Poliésteres / Anti-Infecciosos Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Poliésteres / Anti-Infecciosos Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article