Journal
ACTA BIOMATERIALIA
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 351-358Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2006.11.004
Keywords
cytotoxicity assessment; nanoparticulates; TEM analysis
Funding
- NIEHS NIH HHS [1S11ES013339-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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This study deals with cytotoxicity assays performed on an array of commercially manufactured inorganic nanoparticulate materials, including Ag, TiO2, Fe2O3, Al2O3, ZrO2, Si3N4, naturally occurring mineral chrysotile asbestos and carbonaceous nanoparticulate materials such as multiwall carbon nanotube aggregates and black carbon aggregates. The nanomaterials were characterized by TEM, as the primary particles, aggregates or long fiber dimensions ranged from 2 nm to 20 [LM. Cytotoxicological assays of these nanomaterials were performed utilizing a murine alveolar macrophage cell line and human macrophage and epithelial lung cell lines as comparators. The nanoparticulate materials exhibited varying degrees of cytoxicity for all cell lines and the general trends were similar for both the murine and human macrophage cell lines. These findings suggest that representative cytotoxic responses for humans might be obtained by nanoparticulate exposures to simple murine macrophage cell line assays. Moreover, these results illustrate the utility in performing rapid in vitro assays for cytotoxicity assessments of nanoparticulate materials as a general inquiry of potential respiratory health risks in humans. (C) 2007 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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