<i>A Special Issue on</i> Progress in Nanogeosciences

Ju, Yi‐Hsu; Wan, Quan; Chen, Wei; Huang, Fei; Wang, Guochang; Feng, Hongye; Cao, Jianjin; Pan, Jienan; Tan, Jingqiang; Liu, Keyu; Wang, Min; Wang, Moran; Chen, Tianhu; Lu, Xiancai; Wang, Xueqiu; Yao, Yanbin; Yang, Yi; Cai, Zhourong

doi:10.1166/jnn.2021.18874

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“…(Gharpure and Ankamwar 2020 ; Mishra et al 2017 ). ZnO NPs have been observed to show excellent antimicrobial (bacteria, fungi, viruses), anticancer, anti-inflammatory as well as anti-diabetic potentials which have been extensively applied in multiple areas of biomedicine (Gharpure et al 2021a , b ). ZnO has been listed as “generally recognized as safe” according to the United States Food and Drug Association (US-FDA) due to its biocompatible nature thereby increasing its use in biomedical applications (Rasmussen et al 2010 ).…”

Section: Use Of Nanotechnology For Treating Covid-19mentioning

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Use of nanotechnology in combating coronavirus

Gharpure

Ankamwar

2021

3 Biotech

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Recent COVID-19 pandemic situation caused due to the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affected global health as well as economics. There is global attention on prevention, diagnosis as well as treatment of COVID-19 infection which would help in easing the current situation. The use of nanotechnology and nanomedicine has been considered to be promising due to its excellent potential in managing various medical issues such as viruses which is a major threat. Nanoparticles have shown great potential in various biomedical applications and can prove to be of great use in antiviral therapy, especially over other conventional antiviral agents. This review focusses on the pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 and the progression of the COVID-19 disease followed by currently available treatments for the same. Use of nanotechnology has been elaborated by exploiting various nanoparticles like metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon-based nanoparticles, quantum dots, polymeric nanoparticles as well as lipid-based nanoparticles along with its mechanism of action against viruses which can prove to be beneficial in COVID-19 therapeutics. However, it needs to be considered that use of these nanotechnology-based approaches in COVID-19 therapeutics only aids the human immunity in fighting the infection. The main function is performed by the immune system in combatting any infection.

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