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Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles: Structural Features and In Vivo and In Vitro Therapeutic Effects against Helicobacter pylori Induced Gastritis

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BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 2014, Issue -, Pages -

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HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2014/135824

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  1. Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University [RGP-VPP-312]

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This study evaluates in vivo and in vitro anti-Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) efficacy of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) prepared via a cost-effective green chemistry route wherein Peganum harmala L. seeds extract was used as a reducing and capping agent. The structural features, as elucidated by surface plasmon resonance spectrophotometry, transmission electron microscopy, and powder X-ray diffraction spectroscopy, revealed the Ag-NPs synthesized to be polydispersed in nature and spherical in shape with 5-40 nm size. A typical Ag-NPs suspension (S-5), with size being 15 nm, when tested in vitro against forty-two local isolates and two reference strains, showed a considerable anti-H. pylori activity. In case of in vivo trial against H. pylori induced gastritis, after oral administration of 16mg/kg body weight of S-5 for seven days, a complete clearance was recorded in male albino rates. In comparative time-killing kinetics, S-5 exhibited dose-and time-dependent anti-H. pylori activity that was almost similar to tetracycline and clarithromycin, less than amoxicillin, but higher than metronidazole. Furthermore, S-5 was found to be an equally effective anti-H. pylori agent at low (<= 4) and high pH with no drug resistance observed even up to 10 repeated exposures while a significant drug resistance was recorded for most of the standard drugs employed. The present results revealed the potential of the synthesized Ag-NPs as safer bactericidal agents for the treatment of H. pylori induced gastritis.

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