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Role of surface charge in determining the biological effects of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Nanomedicine, November 2015
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Title
Role of surface charge in determining the biological effects of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots
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International Journal of Nanomedicine, November 2015
DOI 10.2147/ijn.s94543
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Qiangqiang Liu, Hongxia Li, Qiyue Xia, Ying Liu, Kai Xiao

Abstract

The growing potential of quantum dots (QDs) in biomedical applications has provoked the urgent need to thoroughly address their interaction with biological systems. However, only limited studies have been performed to explore the effects of surface charge on the biological behaviors of QDs. In the present study, three commercially available QDs with different surface coatings were used to systematically evaluate the effects of surface charge on the cellular uptake, cytotoxicity, and in vivo biodistribution of QDs. Our results demonstrated that charged QDs entered both cancer cells and macrophages more efficiently than neutral ones, while negative QDs internalized mostly. Upon entry into cells, QDs were localized in different subcellular compartments (eg, cytoplasm and lysosomes) depending on the surface charge. Interestingly, inconsistent with the result of internalization, positive QDs but not negative QDs exhibited severe cytotoxicity, which was likely due to their disruption of cell membrane integrity, and production of reactive oxygen species. Biodistribution studies demonstrated that negative and neutral QDs preferentially distributed in the liver and the spleen, whereas positive QDs mainly deposited in the kidney with obvious uptake in the brain. In general, surface charge plays crucial roles in determining the biological interactions of QDs.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 47 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 43%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Lecturer 2 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Student > Postgraduate 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 11 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 15%
Chemistry 6 13%
Materials Science 4 9%
Engineering 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 11 23%
Unknown 14 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2015.
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#15,043,267
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Outputs from International Journal of Nanomedicine
#1,606
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#141,080
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Nanomedicine
#39
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