Open AccessNanoparticles as Antimicrobial Agents and Drug Delivery Systems - A Review
Author(s) -
Jagadish Kumar Suluvoy,
P Gómez,
T. Jesse Joel,
Neha Toppo,
Dhanu P. Karthikeyan,
Ritu Shepherd
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pure and applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2581-690X
pISSN - 0973-7510
DOI - 10.22207/jpam.15.4.67
Subject(s) - drug delivery , nanotechnology , drug , nanoparticle , antimicrobial , targeted drug delivery , drug resistance , chemistry , pharmacology , materials science , medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , organic chemistry
The world is facing major issues related to antibiotic resistance, specific drugs targeting and its side effects. Such obstacles can be rectified by nanotechnology as they have essential characteristics with smaller size, target specificity, easy deliverable with lesser side effects. The prime nature of the nanoparticles are, it can probe into the cell wall of the pathogenic microbes and even have the capacity to intrude into cellular pathways. Nanoparticles themselves are capable of destroying unwanted foreign particles or toxic cells, which enter into our bodies. Nanoparticles can be treated as carriers, in which they combine with specific drugs and deliver to target specific cells with lesser side effects. Nanoparticles are used as a drug delivery agent for various kinds of diseases related to cancer. Nanoparticles with drugs increase the antibiotic release at the different target sites and these nanoparticles have a great tendency to deliver a large number of drugs to a cell. In this current review, we discuss the bright future of NPs as drug delivery agents as it can overcome all conventional problems.