Sigrun Lange, an associate professor in the University of Westminster’s school of life sciences, published a paper with her graduate students titled: Cannabidiol Is a Novel Modulator of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, that asserted cannabidiol could inhibit membrane vesicle release in gram-negative bacteria and thus possessed antibacterial properties. The scientists treated bacterial cultures with CBD before centrifuging and quantifying the number of membrane vesicles outside the cells via nanoparticle tracking analysis. The purpose of this paper was to assess the antibacterial properties of cannabidiol both alone and in combination with other conventional antibiotics against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Lange writes in a highly technical manner, so this paper is likely for skilled biomedical scientists with some interest in antibacterial resistance, bioprospecting, or cannabis bio-applications.
References
Kosgodage US, Matewele P, Awamaria B, Kraev I, Warde P, Mastroianni G, Nunn AV, Guy GW, Bell JD, Inal JM, Lange S. 2019. Cannabidiol Is a Novel Modulator of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 9.
