Journal
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-017-3993-5
Keywords
Nanotoxicity; Endothelial cells; Gold nanoparticles; Microfluidic; Fluorescence microscopy; Nanobiomedicine
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Funding
- MIUR [PRIN 2010C4R8M8]
- University of Padova [PRAT CPDA155454]
- University of Padova
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Screening nanoparticle toxicity directly on cell culture can be a fast and cheap technique. Nevertheless, to obtain results in accordance with those observed in live animals, the conditions in which cells are cultivated should resemble the one encountered in live systems. Microfluidic devices offer the possibility to satisfy this requirement, in particular with endothelial cell lines, because they are capable to reproduce the flowing media and shear stress experienced by these cell lines in vivo. In this work, we exploit a microfluidic device to observe how human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) viability changes when subject to a continuous flow of culture medium, in which spherical citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles of different sizes and at varying doses are investigated. For comparison, the same experiments are also run in multiwells where the cells do not experience the shear stress induced by the flowing medium. We discuss the results considering the influence of mode of exposure and nanoparticle size (24 and 13 nm). We observed that gold nanoparticles show a lower toxicity under flow conditions with respect to static and the HUVEC viability decreases as the nanoparticle surface area per unit volume increases, regardless of size.
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