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Mi Suk JEONG, Jeong Soon PARK, Seong Hwan SONG, Se Bok JANG, Characterization of Antibacterial Nanoparticles from the Scallop, Ptinopecten yessoensis, Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, Volume 71, Issue 9, 23 September 2007, Pages 2242–2247, https://doi.org/10.1271/bbb.70228
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Abstract
To develop a new drug delivery system, antibacterial 50–900 nm nanoparticles of shell and internal organs from scallops collected off Huksan-Island, Korea, were prepared by dry grind technology respectively. The diameters, identities, and conformations of the scallop shell and internal organ particles were determined with a particle-size analyzer and by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Raman spectroscopy. The antibacterial properties of the nanoparticles from scallop shell were investigated in the absence and the presence of scallop-shell extract. Bacterial growth was reduced with the supernatant of the nanoparticle scallop-shell extract. Also, the nanoparticles from scallop shell were much more effective as a skin softener than was powder. These facts provide us with guidelines for the study of the size-dependent properties of functional materials as well as for further applications to drug delivery systems (DDSs) and cosmetic raw materials.