The investigation of the interaction of silver nanoparticles and live bacteria cells is of particular importance for understanding and controlling their bactericidal properties. In this study, the process of internalization of silver nanoparticles in Escherichia coli cells was followed by means of synchrotron excitation deep ultraviolet (DUV) fluorescence imaging. Antimicrobial nanostructures t...

Silver-resistant mutants were selected by stepwise exposure of silver-susceptible clinical strains of Escherichia coli, two of which did not contain any plasmids, to either silver nitrate or silver sulfadiazine. These mutants showed complete cross-resistance to both compounds. They showed low-level cross-resistance to cephalosporins and HgCl2 but not to other heavy metals. The Ag-resistant muta...

* Author for correspondence: K.P. Chong, School of Sustainable Agriculture, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88999, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Tel: +6088-320000 Fax: +6088320278, [email protected]. Abstract. Rice blast disease, caused by Pyricularia oryzae Cav. is the most serious fungal disease in rice crop, and this disease has caused significant yield losses worldwide. Sakuranetin which is a...

A large spin accumulation due to the electrical spin injection has been observed in Permalloy-silver lateral spin-valve structures. The observed resistance change is the largest among the reported metallic lateral spin valves with Ohmic junctions. The spin-diffusion length deduced from the experimental results is also found to be the longest among the normal metals reported so far. All the resu...

An often overlooked problem in the use of radiotracers is the possibility of isotopic contamination. Commercially available silver 110mAg was used to study silver uptake and depuration in rainbow trout and European eel. Quality control by means of comparative gamma and beta counting brought our attention to a contamination of the 110mAg stock with 109Cd, which could be seen only because the 109...

The product of the postformalin ammoniacal silver reaction, which has been claimed to distinguish lysine-rich from arginine-rich histones with the light microscope on the basis of a color difference, was examined in developing erythroid cells of chick bone marrow with the electron microscope. Stem cells and early erythroblasts exhibit no, or little, ammoniacal silver reaction product, while sma...

The increasing likelihood of silver nanoparticle (AgNP) releases to the environment highlights the importance of understanding AgNP interactions with plants, which are cornerstones of most ecosystems. In this study, poplars (Populus deltoides × nigra) and Arabidopsis thaliana were exposed hydroponically to nanoparticles of different sizes (PEG-coated 5 and 10 nm AgNPs, and carbon-coated 25 nm A...

Rainbow trout embryos were chronically exposed to silver (as AgNO3) in moderately hard water (120 mg CaCO3/L, 0.70 mM Cl-, 1.3 mg/L dissolved organic matter. 12.3+/-0.1 degrees C) at nominal concentrations of 0.1, 1, and 10 microg/L (measured = 0.117+/-0.008, 1.22+/-0.16, and 13.51+/-1.58 microg/L, respectively) to investigate the effects on mortality, ionoregulation, and silver uptake and dist...

Silver has been known to exhibit strong cytotoxicity towards a broad range of micro-organisms. Silver composites with a tailored slow silver-release rate are currently being investigated for various applications. Silver has an oligodynamic effect, that is, silver ions are capable of causing a bacteriostatic (growth inhibition) or even a bactericidal (antibacterial) impact. Nanometer-sized inorg...

nanoparticles of silver were treaeted as clinical trials in some broiler farms for its disinfecting characters in 4 broiler farms during growing period. the nanosilver were used orally and inhalatory in amount of 2 -4 ppm and 40 ppm respectively. some samples of breast muscle, femora muscle, heart, gizzard, liver, skin, spleen, lung, kidney and cloacal feces were collected randomly in slaughter...