用于抗生物膜应用的氧化和抗菌聚合物的光介导激活

Siyuan Luo1, Zuotao Zhou1, Yu Jin1

  • 1School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China. shenzq@ustc.edu.cn.

概括

这项研究引入了一种光激活的纳米粒子系统,该系统释放氧化 (NO) 并激活抗菌聚合物. 这种双重作用的方法有效地破坏了耐抗生素的细菌生物膜,为感染治疗提供了新的策略.

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