Metformin improves antibacterial treatment speed
Old dogs may not learn new tricks, but old drugs can. according to a research team based in China. A collaboration found that Metformin, a small molecule drug that has been used to treat type II diabetes for more than 50 years, can improve the efficiency and efficacy of antibacterial treatments for quick wound-healing. The results were published in Nano Research journal.
The abuse of antibiotics has led to serious bacterial resistance, with about 1.27 million deaths in 2019 due to multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, bacterial resistance poses a fatal threat to human health. Non-antibiotic antibacterial technologies and antibacterial nanoagents with specific catalytic activities not only produce toxic substrates to directly kill bacteria-including antibiotic-resistant bacteria-but can also reduce the risk of the bacteria developing resistance to drugs.
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