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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Silver Nanoparticle Conjugation-Enhanced Antibacterial Efficacy of Clinically Approved Drugs Cephradine and Vildagliptin.

Abdulkader Masri, Ayaz Anwar, Dania Ahmed, Ruqaiyyah Bano Siddiqui, Muhammad Raza Shah, Naveed Ahmed Khan

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdulkader MasriDepartment of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Malaysia. 17025941@imail.sunway.edu.my.
Ayaz AnwarDepartment of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Malaysia. ayazanwarkk@yahoo.com.
Dania AhmedHEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 74600, Pakistan. dania.ahmed48@yahoo.com.
Ruqaiyyah Bano SiddiquiDepartment of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Malaysia. ruqaiyyahs@sunway.edu.my.
Muhammad Raza ShahHEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 74600, Pakistan. raza_shahm@yahoo.com.
Naveed Ahmed KhanDepartment of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Malaysia. naveed5438@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7667-8553
Sunway University · MYUniversity of Karachi · PK

Funding

Sunway University INT-2017-03
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper sets out to determine whether silver nanoparticles conjugation enhance the antibacterial efficacy of clinically approved drugs. Silver conjugated Cephradine and Vildagliptin were synthesized and thoroughly characterized by ultraviolet visible spectrophotometry (UV-vis), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopic methods, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and dynamic light scattering (DLS) analysis. Using antibacterial assays, the effects of drugs alone and drugs-conjugated with silver nanoparticles were tested against a variety of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria including neuropathogenic

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antibacterialCephradinenanoparticlesnanotechnologyVildagliptin

Identifiers

PMID30445704
PMCPMC6316254
OpenAlexW2900967497

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