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Title: Implications of in vitro dosimetry on toxicological ranking of low aspect ratio engineered nanomaterials.

Authors: Pal, Anoop K; Bello, Dhimiter; Cohen, Joel; Demokritou, Philip

Published In Nanotoxicology, (2015)

Abstract: In vitro high throughput screening platforms based on mechanistic injury pathways are been used for hazard assessment of engineered nanomaterials (ENM). Toxicity screening and other in vitro nanotoxicology assessment efforts in essence compare and rank nanomaterials relative to each other. We hypothesize that this ranking of ENM is susceptible to dispersion and dosimetry protocols, which continue to be poorly standardized. Our objective was to quantitate the impact of dosimetry on toxicity ranking of ENM. A set of eight well-characterized and diverse low aspect ratio ENMs, were utilized. The recently developed in vitro dosimetry platform at Harvard, which includes preparation of fairly monodispersed suspensions, measurement of the effective density of formed agglomerates in culture media and fate and transport modeling was used for calculating the effective dose delivered to cells as a function of time. Changes in the dose-response relationships between the administered and delivered dose were investigated with two representative endpoints, cell viability and IL-8 production, in the human monocytic THP-1 cells. The slopes of administered/delivered dose-response relationships changed 1:4.94 times and were ENM-dependent. The overall relative ranking of ENM intrinsic toxicity also changed considerably, matching notably better the in vivo inflammation data (R(2 )= 0.97 versus 0.64). This standardized dispersion and dosimetry methodology presented here is generalizable to low aspect ratio ENMs. Our findings further reinforce the need to reanalyze and reinterpret in vitro ENM hazard ranking data published in the nanotoxicology literature in the light of dispersion and dosimetry considerations (or lack thereof) and to adopt these protocols in future in vitro nanotoxicology testing.

PubMed ID: 25672815 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Cell Survival/drug effects; Cells, Cultured; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Humans; Interleukin-8/metabolism; Nanostructures/toxicity*; Suspensions; Toxicology/methods*

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