Establishment of an in vivo simulating co-culture assay platform for genotoxicity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

ABSTRACT: Engineered nanomaterials (ENM) are now used in a wide variety of fields, and, thus, their safety should urgently be assessed and secured. It has been suggested that inflammatory responses via the phagocytosis of ENM by macrophages is a key mechanism for their genotoxicity. The present study was conducted to establish a mechanism-based assay to evaluate the genotoxicity of ENM under conditions simulating an in vivo situation, featuring a co-culture system of murine lung resident cells (GDL1) and immune cells (RAW264.7). GDL1 were cultured with or without RAW264.7, exposed to a multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT), and then analyzed for mutagenicity and underlying mechanisms. Mutation frequencies induced in GDL1 by the MWCNT were significantly greater with the co-existence of RAW264.7 than i

SUBMITTER: Fukai E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5891196 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature