Corresponding Author: Iman Shabana, Department of Bacteriology, Immunology and Mycology, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt Email: [email protected] Abstract: Bacterial skin infections are a common problem encountered in clinical practice and causing great economic losses for sheep and goats producers. Increasing multidrug resistance of pathogens paves the way fo...

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles (NPs) incorporating quantum dots (QDs), superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and gold (Au) NPs for neutrophil labeling were fabricated via the w/o/w double emulsion method. QDs and SPIONs were entrapped in the PLGA core during emulsification while Au NPs were assembled on top of the PLGA NPs via electrostatic interactions. Transm...

In this work, we performed atomistic simulations to study the structural properties of mixed self-assembled monolayers (SAM) of hydrophilic and hydrophobic alkylthiols, with two different chain lengths (C5 and C11), on gold nanoparticles (NPs) at three different arrangements, namely: random, patchy, and Janus domains. In particular, we report the effect of mixing of thiols with unequal carbon c...

Magnetite/gold core-shell nanoparticles (magnetite/gold NPs) have important optical and magnetic properties that provide potential for applications, especially biomedical ones. However, their preparation is not exempt from difficulties might lead to unexpected or undesired structures. This work reports the synthesis characterization of magnetite/gold NPs using tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMA...

Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) were functionalized by cysteine (Cys), beta-amyloid peptides (Cys(0)Abeta(1-28), Cys(0)Abeta(1-40), Abeta(1-42)) and a pentapeptide fragment (Leu-Pro-Phe-Phe-Asp-OH (LPFFD-OH)). Optical absorption spectra of these systems were recorded and the plasmon resonance maximum values (lambda(max)) of the UV-vis spectra together with the transmission electron microscopy (TEM)...

The main objective of this research was to synthesize and characterize gold-coated Fe3O4 /SiO2 nanoshells for clinical applications. Magnetite nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared via co-precipitation. The results showed that smaller particles can be synthesized by decreasing the NaOH concentration, which in our case this corresponded to 35 nm by using 0.9 M of NaOH at 750 rpm. The NPs were then m...

Melamine (M) sensing has been achieved through supramolecular assembly with riboflavin (R) via H-bonding in the platform of R stabilized gold nanoparticles (R-Au NPs), by colorimetric as well as UV-vis techniques.

A simple and novel gold nanoparticle (Au-NPs) based colorimetric method has been developed for efficient screening of class A beta-lactamase (Bla) activity and inhibitors in vitro and in bacterial strains.

Here we report the enzymatic synthesis of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) by an engineered Escherichia coli harboring an NADH cofactor regeneration system coupled with glycerol dehydrogenase, which can be triggered by the addition of exogenous glycerol.

Supported gold nanoparticles (NPs), which are well-known epoxidation catalysts, were found to be exceptionally active for the selective deoxygenation of epoxides into alkenes using cheap and easily accessible CO and H(2)O as the reductant.