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Amedea B. Seabra

Professora, Universidade Federal do ABC
Verified email at ufabc.edu.br
Cited by 12442

Silver nanoparticles: A new view on mechanistic aspects on antimicrobial activity

N Durán, M Durán, MB De Jesus, AB Seabra… - … , biology and medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles are well known potent antimicrobial agents. Although significant
progresses have been achieved on the elucidation of antimicrobial mechanism of silver …

Nanotoxicity of graphene and graphene oxide

AB Seabra, AJ Paula, R de Lima… - Chemical research in …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Graphene and its derivatives are promising candidates for important biomedical applications
because of their versatility. The prospective use of graphene-based materials in a …

Silver nanoparticles: a brief review of cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of chemically and biogenically synthesized nanoparticles

R de Lima, AB Seabra, N Durán - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years interest in silver nanoparticles and their applications has increased mainly
because of the important antimicrobial activities of these nanomaterials, allowing their use in …

Green tea extract mediated biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles: Characterization, cytotoxicity evaluation and antibacterial activity

…, JS Bernardes, T Rodigues, M Brocchi, AB Seabra - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are widely used in biomedical fields because of their potent
antimicrobial activity. Biogenic synthesis of nanoparticles has gained considerable attention …

In vitro antifungal efficacy of copper nanoparticles against selected crop pathogenic fungi

P Kanhed, S Birla, S Gaikwad, A Gade, AB Seabra… - Materials Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Copper nanoparticles play an important role in the field of optics and electronics, and also
as a novel antimicrobial. In the present study, we report antifungal activity of copper …

S-nitrosation of the insulin receptor, insulin receptor substrate 1, and protein kinase B/Akt: a novel mechanism of insulin resistance

…, M Ueno, SM Hirabara, AB Seabra… - Diabetes, 2005 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Evidence demonstrates that exogenous nitric oxide (NO) and the NO produced by inducible
nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) can induce insulin resistance in muscle. Here, we investigated …

Antimicrobial activity of biogenic silver nanoparticles, and silver chloride nanoparticles: an overview and comments

N Durán, G Nakazato, AB Seabra - Applied microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
The antimicrobial impact of biogenic-synthesized silver-based nanoparticles has been the
focus of increasing interest. As the antimicrobial activity of nanoparticles is highly dependent …

Nitric oxide-releasing vehicles for biomedical applications

AB Seabra, N Durán - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitric oxide (NO) is involved in several physiological processes, such as the control of vascular
tone, the inhibition of platelet aggregation, smooth muscle cell replication, the immune …

Cellulose nanocrystals as carriers in medicine and their toxicities: A review

AB Seabra, JS Bernardes, WJ Fávaro, AJ Paula… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are crystalline nanoparticles that present myriad applications.
CNCs are produced from a variety of renewable sources, and they can be chemically …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotoxicology of metal oxide nanoparticles

AB Seabra, N Durán - Metals, 2015 - mdpi.com
This review discusses recent advances in the synthesis, characterization and toxicity of metal
oxide nanoparticles obtained mainly through biogenic (green) processes. The in vitro and …