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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Heo, Yujina | Li, Cheng-Aib | Kim, Duckjongb; * | Shin, Sehyuna; *
Affiliations: [a] School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea | [b] Department of Nano Mechanics, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Daejeon, Korea
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Sehyun Shin, Ph.D., Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea. Tel.: +82 2 3290 3377; E-mail: [email protected] and Duckjong Kim, Ph.D., Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Jang-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea. Tel.: +82 42 868 7121; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been increasingly used in a variety of biomedical applications, such as in vivo delivery of drugs and tumor imaging. Potential exposure of SWNTs to human red blood cells (RBCs) may cause serious toxicity including alteration of mechanical properties of cells. The present study investigated the cellular response to exposure of SWNTs with measuring rheological characteristics of RBCs, including hemolysis, deformability, aggregation, and morphological changes. RBCs were exposed to two different dispersion-state samples (i.e. individual SWNTs and bundled SWNTs) in chitosan hydroxyphenyl acetamide (CHPA) solutions. The concentrations of SWNTs were carefully chosen to avoid any hemorheological alterations due to hemolysis. Rheological characteristics were measured using microfluidic-laser diffractometry and aggregometry. Our results show that the bundled SWNTs had higher hemolytic activity than did the individual SWNTs. RBC aggregation apparently decreased as the concentration of SWNTs or incubation time increased. Additionally, bundled SWNTs caused significant alterations in the shape and fusion of RBCs. In conclusion, bundled SWNTs were found to be more toxic than individual SWNTs. These results provide important insights into the interactions between RBCs and SWNTs and will facilitate assessment of the risk of nanomaterial toxicity of blood.
Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, RBC membrane, deformability, aggregation, hemolysis
DOI: 10.3233/CH-15081
Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 49-56, 2017
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