Understanding toxicity pathways of gold nanoparticles: RNA expression study on Caco-2 human colon carcinoma cells

ABSTRACT: A safer design and higher eficacy of nano-gold therapeutic formulations requires examination of cellular responses to gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). In this work we compared cellular uptake, cytotoxicity and RNA expression patterns induced in Caco-2 cells of citrate-stabilized Au NP of two different sizes (5 and 30 nm). The toxicity was measured with Colony Forming Efficiency (CFE) and Trypan Blue assays at 24 and 72 h after exposure to AuNPs in the 10 - 300 mM range. Toxicity was observed only in the CFE assay, at 200 and 300 mM exposure levels, and exclusively for smaller AuNPs size. Cellular internalization was dose and time-dependent for both AuNPs. The most pronounced changes in gene expression, evaluated with Agilent microarrays, were detected at 72 h (300 mM) for 5 nm AuNPs, with 103 u

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Marco Fabbri 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-55349 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress