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Kadhim-2021-Biocompatibility of Gold Nanoparti
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Article history: Gold nanoparticles have unique characters such as chemical, physical, and optical properties. It have used
Available online 10 February 2021 in biomedical, pharmaceutical, industrial, and other sciences. Thus, for their safe and effective applica-
tions, much responsiveness has been given to the side effect and toxicity of gold nanoparticles in biolog-
Keywords: ical and medical systems. In this study, we investigated the toxicity of Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) using
GNPs In-viro and In-vivo study. MTT assay was used to investigate cytotoxic activity of GNPs against Rate
Biocompatible embryonic fibroblast (REF) cell line. While, In-vivo model the GNPs were intraperitoneal injected in mice
MTT assay
at concertation 100 mg/Kg. Then, mice body weight and histopathological changes were studied after
REF
Histopathology
4 weeks of injection. GNPs were characterized and confirmed using UV-spectrum assay. Cytotoxicity of
GNPs against REF cells showed no toxic effect and no morphological changes in REF cells after treated
with GNPs at concentration 1, 5, and 10 mg/ml. While, histopathological results showed no changes were
addressed. The findings demonstrated that the GNPs were biocompatible materials In-vitro and In-vivo.
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R.J. Kadhim, E.H. Karsh, Z.J. Taqi et al. Materials Today: Proceedings 42 (2021) 3041–3045
Fig. 4. AO/PI double stain in REF cells after treated with GNPs. Magnification power 40x.
Fig. 5. Effect of GNPs in body weight of mice after intraperitoneal injected as indicated. The results were represented as mean ± SD. n.s. mean non-significant.
These organs were hold on in formalin (10%). The histopathological fluent monolayer, they were exposed GNPs at concentrations (1, 5,
section was done according to standard protocol. [31,32]. 10) ug/ml and incubated in 37 °C for 48hr. then stained by MTT
stain and calculated the percentage of cytotoxicity. The results of
2.7. Statistical analysis current study showed that anti-proliferative activity of GNPs
against REF cell line very low and the highest inhibition of the cell
The statistical analysis was done using GraphPad prism version- culture was found in the concentration (10 mg/ml) and the toxicity
6 [33]. The results are represented as mean ± SD [34]. of these nanoprticles gradually decreases to reach The lowest inhi-
bition in the concentration (1 mg/ml) as shown in Fig. 2, The results
was demonstrated that the no big significant destruction and no
3. Result and discussion
damage in nanoparticles treated cells as well as no reduce in the
number of cancer treated cells with GNPs for 48 h as in Fig. 3.
3.1. Characterization of gold nanoparticles
Apoptotic cells have elevated plasma membrane permeability
to fluorescence stains. After treating the REF cell line with the
The GNPs were analyzed by UV–visible (UV–VIS) spectroscopic
IC50 concentrations of GNPs for 24hrs, the dual cell staining and
analysis between 200 and 1200 nm wavelengths for their absorp-
visualization under fluorescence microscope was performed to
tion values and were found exhibiting the kmax absorption values
detect the changes in the nuclear morphology. As shown in
at 528 nm as seen in Fig. 1, the peak of GNPs was observed almost
Fig. 4. The results showed there is no morphological alterations
528 nm. The morphology of GNPs was studied using SEM, as in
in the treated REFcells.
Fig. 2. GNPs was found to be spherical shape.
In the current study, we focused on assessing whether GNPs Based on the in-vitro results, the in-vivo experiments were fur-
have cytotoxicity on REF cells. REF cells were seeded as 1104 cells ther investigated to evaluate the toxicity of GNPs using mice model
/ well in 96 well plats and after 24 h, when the cells become con- (Figs. 5 and 6). It can be seen that injection of GNPs at dose 100 mg/
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Fig. 6. Histopathology sections in mice after intraperitoneal injected with GNPs as indicated.
Kg for 28 days did not cause mortality, and no statistically signifi- tocytes. In addition, the red pulp surface and follicles structure of
cant differences (P 0.05) in body weight of mice were observed. spleen have been showed as normal structure after GNPs were
The results focus on side effect of GNPs on body weight, liver, lung intraperitoneal injected. The same results are showed for lung after
and spleen of injected mice. The mice were intraperitoneal injected 4 weeks injection of GNPs. These results demonstrated that the
with GNPs for (4) weeks. The results of this study demonstrated GNPs had on toxic effects at these specific concentrations. There-
that the used GNPs had no side effect and there is no changes fore, injected of the animals with the GNPs at concertation
accrued in animals body weight as well as mice organs. The results 100 mg/kg did not induces any histopathological changes in the
showed on significant changes in interlobular vein and liver hepa- liver, spleen and lung.
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