Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 4304-4312Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn5018523
Keywords
blood-brain barrier; nanoparticle; transcytosis; lysosome; live-cell imaging; confocal microscopy; TIRFM
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Funding
- EU FP7 via the small collaborative project NeuroNano [NNP4-SL-2008-214547]
- small collaborative project NanoTransKinetics [NMP4-2010-EU-US-266737]
- INSPIRE (Integrated Nano Science Platform for IREland) program - Irish Government's Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 4, National Development Plan
- Science Foundation Ireland [09/RFP/MTR2425, SFI/SRC/B1155, 12/IA/1422]
- EU FP7, via the Marie-Curie Initial Training Network Path Chooser [PITN-GA-2013-608373]
- ESF Research Networking Programme EpitopeMap
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [12/IA/1422] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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Understanding nanoparticle interactions with the central nervous system, in particular the blood-brain barrier, is key to advances In therapeutics, as well as assessing the safety of nanoparticles. Challenges in achieving insights have been significant, even for relatively simple models. Here we use a combination of live cell imaging and computational analysis to directly study nanoparticle translocation across a human in vitro blood-brain barrier model. This approach allows us to identify and avoid problems in more conventional inferential in vitro measurements by identifying the catalogue of events of barrier internalization and translocation as they occur. Potentially this approach opens up the window of applicability of in vitro models, thereby enabling in depth mechanistic studies in the future. Model nanoparticles are used to illustrate the method. For those, we find that translocation, though rare, appears to take place. On the other hand, barrier uptake is efficient, and since barrier export is small, there Is significant accumulation within the barrier.
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