Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications
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2017
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IF 4.164
Le Pan,Yanjie Li,Lin Zhu,Buchang Zhang,Yuhua Shen,Anjian Xie
In this study, the poly (ethylene glycol) double acrylates (PEGDA) was first initiated by Spinacia oleracea L. extract (SOLE) to in situ form a polymer hydrogel shell on Hela cells with near infra-red irradiation. The SOLE was also a natural photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy of tumor. The use of SOLE is simple, eco-friendly, low cost, and convenient. More importantly, the PEGDA/SOLE composite hydrogel shell on Hela cells not merely prevents SOLE from diffusing to normal tissue for reducing the side effects, but also keeps high SOLE concentration on tumor cell for improving the antitumor effect. Such a hydrogel system has good biocompatibility and exhibits high therapeutic efficacy. This study extended the application of the SOLE/PEGDA gel in photodynamic therapy.
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生物材料学
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肿瘤学
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光动力治疗
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MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
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2017
·Vol. 80
·期 12
·1297-1303
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IF 1.147
Chenlin Li,Mingying Yang,Liangjun Zhu,Yongqiang Zhu
This study aimed to prepare silk fibroin (SF) films loaded with honeysuckle flowers extract (HFE) for inducing apoptosis of HeLa cells. We mixed solution of SF and HFE by air-drying for preparing the honeysuckle flowers extract loaded silk fibroin (SFH) films. The physical properties including morphologies, contact angle, roughness, and Z range were characterized. MTS assay and fluorescence micrographs proved that SFH films inhibited the proliferation rate of HeLa cells due to induction of HFE into SF films. Furthermore, cell apoptosis assay and cell cycle analysis confirmed that the apoptosis of HeLa cells resulted from SFH films. Therefore, SFH films designed in our study might be a promising candidate material for cancer therapy.
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International Journal of Nanomedicine
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2023
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Yanhong Zheng,Yunlan Tang,Zhirong Bao,Hui Wang,Feng Ren,Mingxiong Guo,Hong Quan,Changzhong Jiang
Nanomaterials have an advantage in “personalized” therapy, which is the ultimate goal of tumor treatment. In order to investigate the potential ability of FePt nanoparticles (NPs) in the diagnosis and chemoradiotherapy treatment of malignant tumors, superparamagnetic, monodispersed FePt (~3 nm) alloy NPs were synthesized, using cysteamine as a capping agent. The NPs were characterized by means of X-ray diffraction; transmission electron microscopy, Physical Property Measurement System, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The cytotoxicity of FePt NPs on Vero cells was assessed using an MTT assay, and tumor cell proliferation inhibited by individual FePt NPs and FePt NPs combined with X-ray beams were also collected using MTT assays; HeLa human cancer cell lines were used as in vitro models. Further confirmation of the combined effect of FePt NPs and X-rays was verified using HeLa cells, after which, the cellular uptake of FePt NPs was captured by transmission electron microscopy. The results indicated that the growth of HeLa cells was significantly inhibited by FePt NPs in a concentration-dependent manner, and the growth was significantly more inhibited by FePt NPs combined with a series of X-ray beam doses; the individual NPs did not display any remarkable cytotoxicity on Vero cells at a concentration <250 μg/mL. Meanwhile, the FePt NPs showed negative/positive contrast enhancement for MRI/CT molecule imaging at the end of the study. Therefore, the combined results implied that FePt NPs might potentially serve as a promising nanoprobe for the integration of tumor diagnosis and chemoradiotherapy.
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纳米技术
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肿瘤学
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分子影像
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放射生物学
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Frontiers in Microbiology
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2022
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Ashry Noha M.,El Bahgy Halla E. K.,Mohamed Abdelkader,Alsubhi Nouf H.,Alrefaei Ghadeer I.,Binothman Najat,Alharbi Mona,Selim Samy,Almuhayawi Mohammed S.,Alharbi Mohanned T.,Nagshabandi Mohammed K.,Saad Ahmed M.,El-Saadony Mohamed T.,Sitohy Basel
Cancer and bacterial infection are the most serious problems threatening people's lives worldwide. However, the overuse of antibiotics as antibacterial and anticancer treatments can cause side effects and lead to drug-resistant bacteria. Therefore, developing natural materials with excellent antibacterial and anticancer activity is of great importance. In this study, different concentrations of chitosan (CS), graphene oxide (GO), and graphene oxide-chitosan composite (GO-CS) were tested to inhibit the bacterial growth of gram-positive (Bacillus cereus MG257494.1) and gram-negative (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1). Moreover, we used the most efficient natural antibacterial material as an anticancer treatment. The zeta potential is a vital factor for antibacterial and anticancer mechanism, at pH 3–7, the zeta potential of chitosan was positive while at pH 7–12 were negative, however, the zeta potential for GO was negative at all pH values, which (p < 0.05) increased in the GO-CS composite. Chitosan concentrations (0.2 and 1.5%) exhibited antibacterial activity against BC with inhibition zone diameters of 4 and 12 mm, respectively, and against PAO1 with 2 and 10 mm, respectively. Treating BC and PAO1 with GO:CS (1:2) and GO:CS (1:1) gave a larger (p < 0.05) inhibition zone diameter. The viability and proliferation of HeLa cells treated with chitosan were significantly decreased (p < 0.05) from 95.3% at 0% to 12.93%, 10.33%, and 5.93% at 0.2%, 0.4%, and 0.60% concentrations of chitosan, respectively. Furthermore, CS treatment increased the activity of the P53 protein, which serves as a tumor suppressor. This study suggests that chitosan is effective as an antibacterial and may be useful for cancer treatment.
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生物医学
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TALANTA
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2016
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IF 4.035
Junchao Xu,Yue Zhang,Lintao Zeng,Jinbiao Liu,Joseph M. Kinsella,Ruilong Sheng
A simple naphthalene-based fluorescent probe ( AENO ) for formaldehyde (FA) was successfully synthesized, which exhibited a significant fluorescence turn-on response towards FA in aqueous solution. The probe could quantitatively determine the concentration of FA (0–1.0 mM) with excellent selectivity, high sensitivity and low limit of detection (0.57 µM). The sensing mechanism was proposed as 2-aza-Cope rearrangement for AENO after reaction with FA, which was confirmed by 1 H NMR, HR-MS, FT-IR, UV–vis and fluorescence spectra . The probe has been employed to determine the FA contents in several commercially available toffee samples with satisfactory performance. Thus, AENO might be used as a promising tool for quantitative detection of FA in food. Furthermore, fluorescence imaging of HeLa cells indicated that the probe was cell membrane permeable and could be used for visualizing/imaging the FA trace/transportation in cancer cells.
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分析化学
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食品科学
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Frontiers in Chemistry
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2025
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IF 4.2
Zhihong Hu,Xixi Hou,Yongjing Ren,Ziyuan Wu,Dong Yan,Hong Chen,Lan Wang
Cervical cancer ranks as the fourth most common cancer among women. However, the current treatments have significant side effects and limited therapeutic effects on advanced diseases, so it is necessary to discover better treatments for cervical cancer. The current study investigated the potential anticancer effects of a series of gefitinib-1,2,3-triazole derivative on Hela cells. Among the investigated, the target compound c13 showed good anticancer activity against Hela cells (IC50 = 5.66 ± 0.35 μM) compared with gefitinib (IC50 = 14.18 ± 3.19 μM). Moreover, compound c13 significantly inhibited the colony formation ability of Hela cells in a dose-dependent manner, accompanied by morphological changes in HeLa cells. Further investigations demonstrated that compound c13 triggered cell apoptosis and arrested the cell cycle at the G2/M phase in Hela cells. In addition, western blot analysis revealed that compound c13 upregulated the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, and increased the levels of active caspase 3 and PARP1 cleavage, which suggested the involvement of the mitochondrial pathway in compound c13-induced apoptosis. In brief, these results indicated that compound c13 is a promising compound for the treatment of cervical cancer.
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肿瘤学
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药理学
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细胞生物学
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PLoS One
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2023
·Vol. 18
·期 8
·e0289473
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IF 3.7
Yiming Ruan,Zheng Zhong,Xin Liu,Ziwei Li,Junxian Li,Lili Sun,Hou Sen
The cytotoxicity of micro/nanoplastics (MNPs) is known to be strongly influenced by particle size, but the mechanism is not clear so far. We reported the ability of polystyrene MNPs to be internalized by HeLa cells could be a reason for the size dependent cytotoxicity of MNPs. We found that small MNPs (10 nm and 15 nm in radius) could be efficiently internalized by HeLa cells, MNPs of 25 nm in radius could be slightly internalized by the cells, and larger MNPs could not enter the cells at all. We showed that only MNPs, which could be internalized by cells, had a toxic effect on cell activity in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, MNPs, which could not be internalized by cells, showed no cytotoxicity even if at extremely high concentrations. We attributed the correlation between the size-dependent uptake of MNPs and the size-dependent cytotoxicity of MNPs to the enhanced reactive oxygen species (ROS) level and abnormal gene expression. Our study pointed out that cellular uptake is one of the most fundamental mechanisms for the cytotoxicity of MNPs.
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毒理学
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细胞生物学
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纳米技术
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MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
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2015
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IF 4.384
Xingwang Zhang,Dong Dong,Huailing Wang,Zhiguo Ma,Yifei Wang,Baojian Wu
Efflux of glucuronide is facilitated by the membrane transporters including BCRP and MRPs. In this study, we aimed to determine the effects of transporter expression on glucuronide efflux and cellular glucuronidation. Single efflux transporter (i.e., BCRP, MRP1, MRP3, or MRP4) was stably knocked-down in UGT1A1-overexpressing HeLa cells. Knock-down of transporters was performed by stable transfection of short-hairpin RNA (shRNA) using lentiviral vectors. Glucuronidation and glucuronide transport in the cells were characterized using three different aglycones (i.e., genistein, apigenin, and emodin) with distinct metabolic activities. BCRP knock-down resulted in significant reductions in excretion of glucuronides (42.9% for genistein glucuronide (GG), 21.1% for apigenin glucuronide (AG) , and 33.7% for emodin glucuronide (EG); p < 0.01) and in cellular glucuronidation (38.3% for genistein, 38.6% for apigenin, and 34.7% for emodin; p < 0.01). Knock-down of a MRP transporter led to substantial decreases in excretion of GG (32.3% for MRP1, 36.7% for MRP3, and 36.6% for MRP4; p < 0.01) and AG (59.3% for MRP1, 24.7% for MRP3, and 34.1% for MRP4; p < 0.01). Also, cellular glucuronidation of genistein (38.3% for MRP1, 32.3% for MRP3, and 31.1% for MRP4; p < 0.01) and apigenin (40.6% for MRP1, 32.4% for MRP3, and 34.6% for MRP4; p < 0.001) was markedly suppressed. By contrast, silencing of MRPs did not cause any changes in either excretion of EG or cellular glucuronidation of emodin. In conclusion, cellular glucuronidation was significantly altered by decreasing expression of efflux transporters, revealing a strong interplay of glucuronidation with efflux transport.
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DYES AND PIGMENTS
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2020
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IF 4.613
Yu Chen,Yumin Wang,Xiang Hua Wu,Bo Liu,Jun Feng Zhang
Biothiols such as cysteine (Cys), homocysteine (Hcy) and glutathione (GSH) play important roles in various physiological and pathological processes. However, it is still a great challenge to selectively detect Cys/Hcy and GSH in biological samples due to the similarity of structures and re-activities of these biothiols. In this paper, a new dual-channel near infrared-7-nitro-1,2,3-benzoxadiazole ( NIR-NBD ) fluorescent probe has been developed for the discriminative detection of Cys/Hcy and GSH. The probe is composed of two functional parts: a near-infrared dye of dicyanoisophorone, as fluorophore precursor, and NBD as both fluorophore precursor and sensing group. It was observed that NIR-NBD probe displayed two different fluorescent signals in response to biothiols, green-red for Cys/Hcy and red for GSH. It also showed a near infrared emission (756 nm), low detection limit, fast response, high stability, selectivity and sensitivity. Furthermore, NIR-NBD was effectively applied for the discriminative detection of Cys/Hcy and GSH in HeLa cells .
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化学
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生物化学
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细胞生物学
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分析化学
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INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
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2021
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IF 5.645
Mingming Zhou,Siew Young Quek,Xulan Shang,Shengzuo Fang
This research investigated the variations of triterpenoid contents in Cyclocarya paliurus leaves and their underlying anticancer activity and mechanism. Leaf samples were collected from twelve geographical locations in China for the experiments. Significant variation in the triterpenoid content and growth inhibition on HeLa cells were observed among the C. paliurus populations. Antiproliferation effects of the leaf samples were significantly affected by the pentacyclic triterpenoids contents except for oleanolic acid. Among the pentacyclic triterpenoids, hederagenin exhibited the best anticancer activity with IC 50 of 17.42 μg/mL. Based on the results, pentacyclic triterpenoids may induce HeLa cell apoptosis via mitochondrial pathway. RNA sequencing indicated that the ACTB , ATF4 , TUBA1B and TUBA1C genes might be the key ones involved in the apoptosis induction by cyclocaric acid B and hederagenin. These results provided useful information for application of C. paliurus in functional beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
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分子生物学
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2019
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IF 3.45
Tong Chang,Yajun Hou,Fengze Wang,Yumei Wang,Yushui Bi
Semiconductor photocatalyst materials based on TiO 2 are potential photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy of cancer. Despite its effectiveness under ultraviolet light, pure TiO 2 shows almost no photocatalytic activity under visible light because of its wide intrinsic band gap energy (anatase, 3.2 eV). Besides, TiO 2 has no magnetic delivery property. In this study, an inorganic nanocomposite, N-TiO 2 /SiO 2 /Fe 3 O 4 , is successfully prepared in three steps by means of co-precipitation, Stöber and sol-gel methods. Deep characterization results by XRD , TEM, XPS , UV–vis DRS, FL and magnetic hysteresis loop reveal that N-TiO 2 /SiO 2 /Fe 3 O 4 has core-shell structure, magnetic property and visible-light-response capability. As a potential photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy, it shows a stronger photodynamic suppression effect on proliferation of HeLa cells than TiO 2 under the irradiation of xenon light.
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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肿瘤学
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Frontiers in Chemistry
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2023
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IF 5.5
Zisan Zeng,Yang Zhao,Luoxing Yang,Fengna Xi,Danke Su
Designing fast and simple quantitative methods on cheap and disposable electrodes for the early detection of HeLa cells is highly desirable for clinical diagnostics and public health. In this work, we developed a label-free and sensitive electrochemical cytosensor for HeLa cell detection based on the gated molecular transport across vertically ordered mesoporous silica films (VMSFs) on the disposable indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode. As high affinity for a folate receptor existed on the membrane of HeLa cancer cells, folic acid (FA) functionalized VMSF could regulate the transport of electrochemical probe (Fe(CN) 6 3− ) by the specific recognition and adhesion of HeLa cells toward the VMSF surface. In addition, VMSF, served as a solid skeleton, is able to effectively prevent the direct contact of cells with the underlying electrode, remaining the underlying electrode activity and favoring the diffusion of Fe(CN) 6 3− . Once specific adhesion of HeLa cells to the VMSF surface happens, Fe(CN) 6 3− redox probe exhibits impeded transport in the silica nanochannels, ultimately resulting in the decreased electrochemical responses and realizing the quantitative determination of HeLa cells with a broad linear range (10 1 –10 5 cells/mL) and a low limit of detection (4 cells/mL). The proposed electrochemical cytosensor shows a great potential application for the early diagnosis of cervical cancer.
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