Oleic Acid Coated Silver Nanoparticles Showed Better Amoebicidal Effects against than Amphotericin B.

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Abstract
() causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) which almost always results in death. also known as "brain-eating amoeba" due to its literal infestation of the brain leading to an inflammatory response in the brain tissues. Currently, there is no single drug that is available to treat PAM, and most treatments are combinations of antifungal, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory drugs. Recently nanotechnology has gained attention in chemotherapeutic research converging on drug delivery, while oleic acid (OA) has shown positive effects on the human immune system and inflammatory processes. In continuation of our recent research in which we reported the effects of oleic acid conjugated with silver nanoparticles (OA-AgNPs) against free-living amoeba , in this report, we show their antiamoebic effects against . OA alone and its nanoconjugates were tested against the amoeba by using amoebicidal and host cell cytopathogenicity assays. Trypan blue exclusion assay was used to determine cell viability. The results revealed that OA-AgNPs exhibited significantly enhanced antiamoebic effects ( < 0.05) against as compared to OA alone. Evidently, lactate dehydrogenase release shows reduced -mediated host cell cytotoxicity. Based on our study, we anticipate that further studies on OA-AgNPs could potentially provide an alternative treatment of PAM.
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Authors Rajendran, Kavitha;Anwar, Ayaz;Khan, Naveed Ahmed;Aslam, Zara;Raza Shah, Muhammad;Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah;
Journal ACS chemical neuroscience
Year 2019
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10.1021/acschemneuro.9b00289
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