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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 565, Issue -, Pages 951-960Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.028
Keywords
Nanotoxicology; Chromium oxide nanoparticles; Oxidative stress; Cell viability; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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- CAPES (Brazil) [017/2010]
- CNPq (Brazil) [552112/2011-9]
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With the growth of nanotechnology and widespread use of nanomaterials, there is an increasing risk of environmental contamination by nanomaterials. However, the potential implications of such environmental contamination are hard to evaluate since the toxicity of nanomaterials if often not well characterized. The objective of this study was to evaluate the toxicity of a chromium-based nanoparticle, Cr2O3-NP, used in a wide diversity of industrial processes and commercial products, on the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The deleterious impacts of Cr2O3-NP were characterized using cell density measurements, production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), esterase enzymes activity, and photosystem II electron transport as indicators of toxicity. Cr2O3-NP exposure inhibited culture growth and significantly lowered cellular Chlorophyll a content. From cell density measurements, EC50 values of 2.05 +/- 0.20 and 1.35 +/- 0.06 g L-1 Cr2O3-NP were obtained after 24 and 72 h of exposure, respectively. In addition, ROS levels were increased to 160.24 +/- 2.47% and 59.91 +/- 0.15% of the control value after 24 and 72 h of exposition to 10 g L-1 Cr2O3-NP. At 24 h of exposure, the esterase activity increased to 160.24% of control value, revealing a modification of the short-term metabolic response of algae to Cr2O3-NP exposure. In conclusion, the metabolism of C. reinhardtii was the most sensitive to Cr2O3-NP after 24 h of treatment. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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