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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOTOXICOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 198-208Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/1547691X.2015.1035819
Keywords
AuNP; cytokines; reactive oxygen species; T(H)17
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- NIGMS: Idaho INBRE program [P20 GM103408]
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Nanoparticles (NP) are significant to multiple industrial processes, consumer products and medical applications today. The health effects of many different types of NP, however, are largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to test the effects of 50-nm gold NP coated with poly-N-vinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on mouse macrophage and spleen cells with and without lipopolysaccharide (LPS), testing the hypothesis that the NP would modulate immune responses without being overtly toxic. Gold NP had no effect on macrophage viability and, in the absence of LPS, they had no effect on tumor necrosis factor (TNF)- production as measured by ELISA. The presence of LPS significantly increased the release of TNF from the macrophages above no-treatment controls, but increasing gold NP concentration led to decreasing release of TNF. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by exposed macrophages were also reduced compared to untreated controls, both with and without LPS, suggesting some kind of oxygen radical scavenging. In splenocyte cultures, gold NP had no effect alone, but significantly reduced the release of interleukin (IL)-17 and TNF triggered by LPS. These results suggest that the gold NP used here are not cytotoxic to immune cells at these concentrations, but may affect cellular responses to infection or inflammation by altering the balance of cytokines.
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