scholarly journals Chlamydomonas reinhardtii displays aversive swimming response to silver nanoparticles

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1328-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Mitzel ◽  
Nicholas Lin ◽  
Joann K. Whalen ◽  
Nathalie Tufenkji

A microfluidic device was used to examine the avoidance response of a freshwater algae to engineered nanoparticles.

Author(s):  
Zi-Yu Chen ◽  
Yu-Chen Su ◽  
Fong-Yu Cheng ◽  
Shian-Jang Yan ◽  
Ying-Jan Wang

Engineered nanoparticles raise safety concerns. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) exert acute and chronic adverse effects by inducing reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated stress signaling pathways. We investigated the mechanisms by which AgNPs...


2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 3871-3879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Huang ◽  
Zhong-Bo Wei ◽  
Liu-Yan Yang ◽  
Ke Pan ◽  
Ai-Jun Miao

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayla Dean ◽  
Felicia Jefferson

Within the previous few years major advances in the development of nanotechnologies and practical application of artificial nanoparticles (NPs) and nanomaterials (NMs) have resulted. As society becomes further aware that the use of nanomaterials is ever growing in consumer products and their presence in the environment, critical interest on the impact of this emerging technology has grown. A major concern is whether the unknown risks of engineered nanoparticles, in particular, their impact on health and environment, outweighs their established benefits to society. The goal is to evaluate their potential toxicity in the environment. Silver nanoparticles exhibit an important effect on microbial processes in environmental exposures. This study provides a brief review over the current state-of-knowledge about AgNPs from various studies in this area, including the history, analysis, source, transport, fate, and potential risks of AgNPs. In order to fully investigate the transport and fate of AgNPs in the environment, appropriate methods for the pre-concentration, separation, and speciation of AgNPs should be developed, and analytical tools for the characterization and detection of AgNPs in complicated environmental studies must be incorporated.


2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indu Barwal ◽  
Peeyush Ranjan ◽  
Suneel Kateriya ◽  
Subhash Yadav

The Analyst ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 141 (18) ◽  
pp. 5382-5389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trang H. D. Nguyen ◽  
Peng Zhou ◽  
Azlin Mustapha ◽  
Mengshi Lin

Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are one of the top five engineered nanoparticles that have been used in various products.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Devi Nallappan ◽  
Agustine Nengsih Fauzi ◽  
Balam Satheesh Krishna ◽  
Basivi Praveen Kumar ◽  
Avula Vijaya Kumar Reddy ◽  
...  

Studies on green biosynthesis of newly engineered nanoparticles for their prominent medicinal applications are being the torch-bearing concerns of the state-of-the-art research strategies. In this concern, we have engineered the biosynthesized Luffa acutangula silver nanoparticles of flavonoid O-glycosides in the anisotropic form isolated from aqueous leave extracts of Luffa acutangula, a popular traditional and ayurvedic plant in south-east Asian countries. These were structurally confirmed by Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy accessed with attenuated total reflection (FTIR-ATR) spectral analyses followed by the scanning electron microscopic (SEM) and the X-ray diffraction (XRD) crystallographic studies and found them with the face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. Medicinally, we have explored their significant antioxidant (DPPH and ABTS assays), antibacterial (disc diffusion assay on E. coli, S. aureus, B. subtilis, S. fecilis, and S. boydii), and anticancer (MTT assay on MCF-7, MDA-MB-231, U87, and DBTRG cell lines) potentialities which augmented the present investigation. The molecular docking analysis of title compounds against 3NM8 (DPPH) and 1DNU (ABTS) proteins for antioxidant activity; 5FGK (Gram-Positive Bacteria) and 1AB4 (Gram-Negative Bacteria) proteins for antibacterial activity; and 4GBD (MCF-7), 5FI2 (MDA-MB-231), 1D5R (U87), and 5TIJ (DBTRG) proteins for anticancer activity has affirmed the promising ligand-protein binding interactions among the hydroxy groups of the title compounds and aspartic acid of the concerned enzymatic proteins. The binding energy varying from -9.1645 to -7.7955 for Cosmosioside (1, Apigenin-7-glucoside) and from -9.2690 to -7.8306 for Cynaroside (2, Luteolin-7-glucoside) implies the isolated compounds as potential bioactive compounds. In addition, the performed studies like QSAR, ADMET, bioactivity properties, drug scores, and toxicity risks confirmed them as potential drug candidates and aspartic acid receptor antagonists. This research auxiliary augmented the existing array of phytological nanomedicines with new drug candidates that are credible with multiple bioactivities.


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