Epithelial cell biocompatibility of silica nanospheres for contrast enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Epithelial cell biocompatibility of silica nanospheres for contrast enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1007/s11051-013-1779-y (literal)
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  • Fernanda Chiriacò, Francesco Conversano, Giulia Soloperto, Ernesto Casciaro, Andrea Ragusa, Enzo Antonio Sbenaglia, Lucia Dipaola, Sergio Casciaro (2013)
    Epithelial cell biocompatibility of silica nanospheres for contrast enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging
    in Journal of nanoparticle research
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  • Fernanda Chiriacò, Francesco Conversano, Giulia Soloperto, Ernesto Casciaro, Andrea Ragusa, Enzo Antonio Sbenaglia, Lucia Dipaola, Sergio Casciaro (literal)
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  • 1779 (literal)
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  • 15 (literal)
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  • 13 (literal)
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  • 7 (literal)
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  • National Research Council, Institute of Clinical Physiology, 73100 Lecce, Italy; National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-NANO, 73100 Lecce, Italy (literal)
Titolo
  • Epithelial cell biocompatibility of silica nanospheres for contrast enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging (literal)
Abstract
  • Nanosized particles are receiving increasing attention as future contrast agents (CAs) for ultrasound (US) molecular imaging, possibly decorated on its surface with biological recognition agents for targeted delivery and deposition of therapeutics. In particular, silica nanospheres (SiNSs) have been demonstrated to be feasible in terms of contrast enhancement on conventional US systems. In this work, we evaluated the cytotoxicity of SiNSs on breast cancer (MCF-7) and HeLa (cervical cancer) cells employing NSs with sizes ranging from 160 to 330 nm and concentration range of 1.5-5 mg/mL. Cell viability was evaluated in terms of size, dose and time dependence, performing the MTT reduction assay with coated and uncoated SiNSs. Whereas uncoated SiNSs caused a variable significant decrease in cell viability on both cell lines mainly depending on size and exposure time, PEGylated SiNSs (SiNSs-PEG) exhibit a high level of biocompatibility. In fact, after 72-h incubation, viability of both cell types was above the cutoff value of 70 % at concentration up to 5 mg/ mL. We also investigated the acoustical behavior of coated and uncoated SiNSs within conventional diagnostic US fields in order to determine a suitable configuration, in terms of particle size and concentration, for their employment as targetable CAs. Our results indicate that the employment of SiNSs with diameters around 240 nm assures the most effective contrast enhancement even at the lowest tested concentration, coupled with the possibility of targeting all tumor tissues, being the SiNSs still in a size range where reticuloendothelial system trapping effect is relatively low. (literal)
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