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JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 107-113Publisher
JAPANESE SOC TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
DOI: 10.2131/jts.35.107
Keywords
Nanoparticle; Skin penetration; Hair-removed skin; Stripped skin; Titanium oxide
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- Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan
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It is important for toxicological assessment of nanoparticles to determine the penetration of nanoparticle in skin qualitatively and quantitatively. Skin penetration Of four different types of rutile titanium dioxide (TiO2) (T-35, 35 nm, non-coating; TC-35, 35 rim, with almina/silica/silicon coating; T-disp, 10 x 100 nm, mixture of almina coated and silicon coated particles, dispersed in cyclopentasiloxan; T-250, 250 nm, non-coating) was determined with in vitro intact, stripped, and hair-removed skin of Yucatan micropigs to study the effect of dispersion and skin conditions. The TiO2 was suspended in a volatile silicone fluid used for cosmetics, cyclopentasiloxane, at a concentration of 10%. The suspension was applied at a dose 2 mu l/cm(2) for 24 hr, followed by cyanoacrylate stripping. The Ti concentration in skin was determined by ICP-MS. T-35 and T-250 easily aggregated in Suspension with a mean diameter greater than 1 mu m. TC-35 and T-disp showed good dispersion properties with a mean diameter in suspension of approximately 100 nm. No penetration was observed regardless of TiO2 type in intact and stripped skin. The concentration of Ti in skin was significantly higher when TC-35 was applied on hair-removed skin. SEM-EDS observation showed that Ti penetrated into vacant hair follicles (greater than 1 mm below the skin Surface), however, it did not penetrate into dermis or viable epidermis.
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