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Zeyu Shao1, You Dan Xu1, Hao Luo1

  • 1School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.

Macromolecular rapid communications
|June 19, 2024
PubMed
概括

研究人员开发了一种智能抗微生物树,只有在遇到特定酶时才会变得活跃,从而降低毒性. 这种掩盖的前药方法为开发新抗菌剂提供了更安全的策略.

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抗生素耐药性 抗生素耐药性细菌,前期药物以及其他药物.自动组装的自动组装机自焚式链接器链接器刺激-响应性的刺激.

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