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  1. Enhancement of wound healing in diabetic mice by topical use of a peptide-ionic liquid conjugate

    Article • The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, March 2025, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  2. Bioactive Peptides from Milk Proteins with Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antihypertensive Activities

    Article • Foods, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  3. Micro(nano)plastic and Related Chemicals: Emerging Contaminants in Environment, Food and Health Impacts

    Article • Toxics, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  4. The Neuroprotective Role of Cyanobacteria with Focus on the Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Potential: Current Status and Perspectives

    Article • Molecules, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  5. Repurposing antiplasmodial leads for cancer: Exploring the antiproliferative effects of N-cinnamoyl-aminoacridines

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, October 2024, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  6. Ultrasound-assisted extraction of bioactive compounds from goji berries: Optimization, bioactivity, and intestinal permeability assessment

    Article • Food Research International, July 2024, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  7. Insights into the Bioactive Composition, Antioxidant Properties and In Vitro Cell Effects of Disphyma crassifolium

    Article • Foods, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  8. Betulinic Acid for Glioblastoma Treatment: Reality, Challenges and Perspectives

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  9. “Seasoning” antimalarial drugs' action: chloroquine bile salts as novel triple-stage antiplasmodial hits

    Article • RSC Medicinal Chemistry, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Ricardo Ferraz

  10. Stalling the Course of Neurodegenerative Diseases: Could Cyanobacteria Constitute a New Approach toward Therapy?

    Article • Biomolecules, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  11. The neuroprotective effect of traditional Chinese medicinal plants—A critical review

    Article • Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, August 2023, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  12. Improving the Antimycobacterial Drug Clofazimine through Formation of Organic Salts by Combination with Fluoroquinolones

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  13. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Amphotericin B Formulations Based on Organic Salts and Ionic Liquids against Leishmania infantum

    Article • Antibiotics, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  14. New Perspectives on the Sustainable Employment of Chestnut Shells as Active Ingredient against Oral Mucositis: A First Screening

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  15. A Critical Comparison of the Advanced Extraction Techniques Applied to Obtain Health-Promoting Compounds from Seaweeds

    Article • Marine Drugs, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  16. Use of Agricultural Wastes to Design Natural Products for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

    Article • October 2022, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  17. Serine-based surfactants as effective antimicrobial agents against multiresistant bacteria

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 2022, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  18. Bioactivity of Ionic Liquids Based on Valproate in SH-SY5Y Human Neuroblastoma Cell Line

    Article • Future Pharmacology, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  19. Boosting Cosmeceutical Peptides: Coupling Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids to Pentapeptide-4 Originates New Leads with Antimicrobial and Collagenesis-Inducing Activities

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, August 2022, ASM Journals

    Ricardo Ferraz

  20. Posters

    Article • FEBS Open Bio, July 2022, Wiley

    Mr. Aleksandrs Petjukevics, Professor Volker F. Wendisch, Ricardo Ferraz, Marco Cavaco

  21. Influence of temperature on the subcritical water extraction of Actinidia arguta leaves: A screening of pro-healthy compounds

    Article • Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, April 2022, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  22. Drug‐Derived Surface‐Active Ionic Liquids: A Cost‐Effective Way To Expressively Increase the Blood‐Stage Antimalarial Activity of Primaquine

    Article • ChemMedChem, December 2021, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  23. Marine Health-Promoting Compounds: Recent Trends for Their Characterization and Human Applications

    Article • Foods, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  24. Disclosure of a Promising Lead to Tackle Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections: Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Actions of Peptide PP4-3.1

    Article • Pharmaceutics, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  25. The Emerging Role of Ionic Liquid-Based Approaches for Enhanced Skin Permeation of Bioactive Molecules: A Snapshot of the Past Couple of Years

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  26. Repurposing conventional antimycobacterial drugs using ionic liquids

    Article • November 2021, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  27. Subcritical Water Extraction of Actinidia arguta Leaves: Radical Scavenging Capacity and Cell Effects

    Article • October 2021, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  28. Bridging Cyanobacteria to Neurodegenerative Diseases: A New Potential Source of Bioactive Compounds against Alzheimer’s Disease

    Article • Marine Drugs, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  29. Surfing the Third Wave of Ionic Liquids: A Brief Review on the Role of Surface‐Active Ionic Liquids in Drug Development and Delivery

    Article • ChemMedChem, June 2021, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  30. Tailoring amphotericin B as an ionic liquid: an upfront strategy to potentiate the biological activity of antifungal drugs

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Ricardo Ferraz

  31. The Impact of [C16Pyr][Amp] on the Aggressiveness in Breast and Prostate Cancer Cell Lines

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  32. 4,9‐Diaminoacridines and 4‐Aminoacridines as Dual‐Stage Antiplasmodial Hits

    Article • ChemMedChem, December 2020, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  33. Effects of Applying A Circuit Training Program During the Warm-Up Phase of Practical Physical Education Classes

    Article • Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Open Access Journal, December 2020, Lupine Publishers LLC

    Ricardo Ferraz

  34. The Continuous and Fractionated Game Format on the Training Load in Small Sided Games in Soccer

    Article • The Open Sports Sciences Journal, October 2020, Bentham Science Publishers

    Ricardo Ferraz, Ricardo Ferraz

  35. Recycling Old Antibiotics with Ionic Liquids

    Article • Antibiotics, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  36. “Clicking” an Ionic Liquid to a Potent Antimicrobial Peptide: On the Route towards Improved Stability

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  37. Building on Surface-Active Ionic Liquids for the Rescuing of the Antimalarial Drug Chloroquine

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  38. Synthesis and Antibacterial Activity of Ionic Liquids and Organic Salts Based on Penicillin G and Amoxicillin hydrolysate Derivatives against Resistant Bacteria

    Article • Pharmaceutics, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  39. Ionic Liquids for Topical Delivery in Cancer

    Article • Current Medicinal Chemistry, January 2020, Bentham Science Publishers

    Ricardo Ferraz

  40. Cinnamic Acid Conjugates in the Rescuing and Repurposing of Classical Antimalarial Drugs

    Article • Molecules, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  41. Tackling bacterial resistance using antibiotics as ionic liquids and organic salts

    Article • November 2019, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  42. A Novel Approach for Bisphosphonates: Ionic Liquids and Organic Salts from Zoledronic Acid

    Article • ChemMedChem, October 2019, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  43. Turning a Collagenesis-Inducing Peptide Into a Potent Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Agent Against Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2019, Frontiers

    Ricardo Ferraz

  44. Differential effects of antiepileptic drugs on human bone cells

    Article • Journal of Cellular Physiology, April 2019, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  45. Development of a synthetic route towards N4,N9-disubstituted 4,9-diaminoacridines: On the way to multi-stage antimalarials

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, April 2019, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  46. Antiproliferative Organic Salts Derived from Betulinic Acid: Disclosure of an Ionic Liquid Selective Against Lung and Liver Cancer Cells

    Article • ACS Omega, March 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Ricardo Ferraz

  47. Chloroquine Analogues as Leads againstPneumocystisLung Pathogens

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 2018, ASM Journals

    Ricardo Ferraz

  48. Wound-Healing Peptides for Treatment of Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Other Infected Skin Injuries

    Article • Molecules, October 2017, MDPI AG

    Ricardo Ferraz

  49. Bioactivity of Ionic Liquids

    Article • September 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Ricardo Ferraz

  50. Effects of novel triple-stage antimalarial ionic liquids on lipid membrane models

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, September 2017, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  51. Antibacterial activities of β-glucan (laminaran) against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Ricardo Ferraz

  52. The Anticancer Potential of Ionic Liquids

    Article • ChemMedChem, December 2016, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  53. Primaquine-based ionic liquids as a novel class of antimalarial hits

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Ricardo Ferraz

  54. Antitumor Activity of Ionic Liquids Based on Ampicillin

    Article • ChemMedChem, July 2015, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  55. Antibacterial activity of Ionic Liquids based on ampicillin against resistant bacteria

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Ricardo Ferraz

  56. New Quinoxalines with Biological Applications

    Article • Biochemistry & Pharmacology Open Access, January 2014, OMICS Publishing Group

    Ricardo Ferraz

  57. Ionic Liquids Synthesis – Methodologies

    Article • Organic Chemistry Current Research, January 2014, OMICS Publishing Group

    Ricardo Ferraz

  58. Evaluation of solubility and partition properties of ampicillin-based ionic liquids

    Article • International Journal of Pharmaceutics, November 2013, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  59. Negative modulation of human osteoclastogenesis by antiepileptic drugs

    Article • May 2013

    Ricardo Ferraz

  60. Modulation of osteoclastogenesis by antihypertensive drugs

    Article • Bone Abstracts, May 2013, Bioscientifica

    Ricardo Ferraz

  61. Synthesis of Ampicillin Ionic Liquids

    Article • MedChemComm, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Ricardo Ferraz

  62. Bacterial Resistance

    Article • Biochemistry & Pharmacology Open Access, January 2012, OMICS Publishing Group

    Ricardo Ferraz, M. Natalia D. S. Cordeiro

  63. Method To Partition Between Freely Suspended Escherichia coli and Escherichia coli attached to clay particles

    Article • January 2012, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Ricardo Ferraz

  64. Ionic Liquids as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients

    Article • ChemMedChem, May 2011, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  65. β‐Lactamases in the biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory

    Article • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, September 2009, Wiley

    Ricardo Ferraz

  66. Bloodstream infections caused by multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: report from two Portuguese hospitals

    Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, September 2008, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz

  67. Anti-Pneumocystis carinii and antiplasmodial activities of primaquine-derived imidazolidin-4-ones

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, January 2008, Elsevier

    Ricardo Ferraz, Rui Moreira

  68. Unanticipated Stereoselectivity in the Reaction of Primaquine α-Aminoamides with Substituted Benzaldehydes:  A Computational and Experimental Study †

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, May 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rui Moreira, José Gomes, Ricardo Ferraz